Helen Pixell

Helen Lucia Mary Pixell Goodrich (25 July 1878 – 29 May 1957) was a British zoologist and researcher notable for her studies on marine fauna and protozoa.

Early life Helen Lucia Mary Pixell was born on 25 July 1878 to the Reverend Charles Henry Vincent Pixell and Edith Mary Wilson.

Education and career Pixell graduated with a BSc in zoology from Bedford College, London in 1901. In 1904 she became a Junior Demonstrator at Bedford College.

Pixell received a Reid Fellowship in 1910 that funded her until 1913 and enable her to conduct research marine fauna in the Georgian Strait.

Pixell received a Beit Memorial Fellowships for Medical Research in 1913.

In 1915, she was awarded a DSc for her research; in 1942 she received her M.A.

Research While she worked at Bedford College at the University of London, she wrote a chapter on polychaetes in the volume describing the scientific results of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition on the S.Y. Scotia from 1902 to 1904.

She researched oral hygiene and the role of mouthwash as an antiseptic, and published details on making mouthwash.

Her research on Entamoeba histolytica was reviewed in a 1916 volume of Nature. Her 1918 book, Canning and Bottling, was briefly reviewed in the Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art.

While at Oxford, she worked on the science of fruit preservation and bee diseases. In a 1997 book on science conducted at Oxford, Jack Morrell described Helen as "a dominating figure in the laboratory compared with her husband".

She also contributed to the ninth edition of Bolles Lee's Microtomist's vade-mecum and her contribution was noted in a 1929 review of the book.

Awards and honors In 1946, the P.L. Misra named a type of protist in the Gregarinasina class, Grebneckiella pixellae, in honor of Pixell's work on Grebneckiella. thumb First page from Pixell, H. L. M. (1912). Memoirs: Two New Species of the Phoronidea from Vancouver Island. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science, 58(230), 257-284.

Personal life Pixell married Edwin Stephen Goodrich in 1913; he was a comparative vertebrate morphologist. While they shared similar professional interests, they kept their scientific work largely separate.

She died in 1957.

Selected publications