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Margaret Jope
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Born | Henrietta Margaret Halliday 1913 (1913)
Peterhead, Scotland
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Died | 2004 (aged 90–91) |
Alma mater | University of Aberdeen Somerville College, Oxford |
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Institutions | Dyson Perrins Laboratory Queens University |
Margaret Jope (1913–2004) was a Scottish biochemist, born Henrietta Margaret HallidayinPeterhead, Scotland. She carried out research into brachiopods.
She took her degree in chemistry at the University of Aberdeen, and her DPhilatSomerville College, Oxford. She met her future husband Martyn Jope while working at the Dyson Perrins LaboratoryatUniversity of Oxford. After their marriage she accompanied him to Belfast, where he later became Professor of ArchaeologyatQueen's University.
Margaret continued her research while at Belfast, in the Geology Department, where she worked primarily on brachiopods, especially on their shell protein.[1] Her other research interests included the crystallisation of haemoglobin,[2] and working with Martyn, made studies of animal bones, especially bird bones, at archaeological sites mainly in Northern Ireland and Oxfordshire.
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