Catherine Clarke Fenselau

(1939- ) born at York. Chemist, cancer researcher, educator, considered a pioneer in the development of biological mass spectrometry, she concentrates on defining the mechanisms of acquired drug resistance in cancer chemotherapy, and on the development of systems for rapid detection of airborne microorganisms; was founding editor of Biomedical and Environmental Mass Spectrometry from 1973 to 1989, holder of five patents, has published 300 scientific papers and trained over 150 students and post doctoral fellows in her laboratory at the University of Maryland, has lectured frequently by invitation at institutions worldwide, was first woman to become a full professor in a preclinical department at Johns Hopkins University, recipient of Garvan Medal in 1985 from the American Chemical Society. Consult Notable Women in the Physical Sciences: A Biographical Dictionary (Greenwood Press, 1997) 94-99 and American Men & Women of Science, Vol 2 (2003) 1072.

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