Germaine Stanier Cohen-Bazire

Germaine Cohen-Bazire Stanier (2 September 1920 – 9 May 2001) was a French microbiologist. A 1960 Guggenheim Fellow, she studied the role of proteins and other chemicals in the biological processes of bacteria. She worked as a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and Pasteur Institute, the latter of where she chaired the Unité de Physiologie Microbienne.

Biography

Germaine Bazire was born on 2 September 1920 in Thonon-les-Bains. Her mother taught at a primary school and her father taught science at a secondary school. In 1960, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study the "regulation of the synthesis of structural units in bacterial cells". Photosynthesis Research called her a "world leader in the ultrastructure and physiology of cyanobacteria",