Mary Pickford

Lillian Mary Pickford (14 August 1902 – 14 August 2002) was a pioneering British neuroendocrinologist. She was the first woman to be elected to the Pharmacological Society and the first woman appointed to a medical professorship at the University of Edinburgh.

Life and work Pickford was born in Jubbulpore, India on 14 August 1902 the daughter of Herbert Arthur Pickford, a tea and indigo planter, and his wife, Lillian Alice Minnie Wintle.

She was sent to live with her aunt and uncle in Surrey, England at the age of five. Her proposers were David Whitteridge, John Gaddum, Reginald Passmore and Philip Eggleton. In 1966 she became Professor of Physiology at the University of Edinburgh. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1966. thumb

In addition to over 60 full papers and 13 book chapters, Pickford published a popular book The Central Role of Hormones (1969).

Professor Pickford died on her hundredth birthday in 2002.

Publications The Central Role of Hormones (1969)