Janet Vaughan
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Dame Janet Vaughan DBE FRS |
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Vaughan in 1963
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| 6th Principal of Somerville College, Oxford | |
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In office 1945–1967 |
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| Preceded by | Helen Darbishire |
| Succeeded by | Barbara Craig |
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| Born |
Janet Maria Vaughan 18 October 1899 UK |
| Died | 9 January 1993 (aged 93) UK |
| Education | North Foreland Lodge |
| Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
| Profession | Physician, physiologist, academician |
| Awards |
DBE (1957) FRS (1979) |
Dame Janet Maria Vaughan, Mrs Gourlay, DBE, FRS (18 October 1899 – 9 January 1993) was a British physiologist, academic, and academic administrator. She researched in haematology and radiation pathology. From 1945 to 1967, she served as Principal of Somerville College, Oxford.
Born in Clifton, Bristol, she was the eldest of four children of William Wyamar Vaughan (a cousin of Virginia Woolf and later headmaster of Rugby) and Madge Symonds. At the time of her birth he was an assistant master at Clifton College. She was educated at home, and later at North Foreland Lodge and Somerville College, Oxford, where she studied medicine under Charles Sherrington and J. B. S. Haldane. She did her clinical training at University College Hospital, London, where she worked in London's slums and saw firsthand the effects of poverty on health.
Later she received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to study at Harvard University.
As a female doctor, Vaughan had difficulties gaining access to patients and experimented on pigeons. Woolf described her as 'an attractive woman; competent, disinterested, taking blood tests all day to solve abstract problems'. She suffered from prejudice for her research.
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