Kristine Bonnevie
1872
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1948
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Norway
educated at: University of Oslo
occupation: zoologist, university teacher, politician, geneticist
award received: King's Medal of Merit, Fridtjof Nansen Award of Excellence, Mathematics-Natural sciences class, Knight First Class of the Order of St. Olav
position held: deputy member of the Parliament of Norway, president
influenced by: Theodor Boveri, Arnold Lang
Kristine Elisabet Heuch Bonnevie (8 October 1872 – 30 August 1948) was a Norwegian biologist. She was the first woman to graduate with a science doctorate in Norway (and the second woman overall), Norway's first woman professor, a women's rights activist, and a politician for the Free-minded Liberal Party. Her fields of research were cytology, genetics, and embryology. She was among the first women to be elected to political office in Norway. She suggested the epic voyage of her graduate student Thor Heyerdahl on the raft Kon-tiki, a voyage memorialized in the Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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