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Murray, Noreen Elizabeth, Lady

 Person

Biography

Lady Noreen Parker received her Pd.D. from the University of Birmingham in 1959. She worked at Stanford University, Cambridge University, and the Medical Research Council (UK) before first joining the University of Edinburgh faculty in 1967.[3] She briefly moved to the European Molecular Biology Laboratory from 1980–82, but returned to Edinburgh where she was awarded a personal chair in 1988.[3] She was president of the Genetical Society, vice president of the Royal Society, and a member of the U.K. Science and Technology Honors Committee.

Lady Murray was elected to the Royal Society in 1982 and the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1989. She has received honorary degrees from the University of Warwick, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, the University of Birmingham, and Lancaster University.[3][5] She has also been given the Fred Griffith Review Lectureship of the Society for General Microbiology and in 1989, for her work with lambda phage, the Gabor Medal of the Royal Society. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honors list for 2002.She died on May 12, 2011.

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Sir Kenneth Murray and Lady Noreen Parker Murray Collection

 Collection
Identifier: KMNPM
Abstract

Sir Kenneth Murray and Lady Noreen Parker Murray Collection contains documents pertinent to the EMBO Workshop on DNA Restriction and Modification in Basel, Switzerland during September 1972, and a laboratory notebook used by Sir Kenneth Murray in 1978 while at the University of Edinburgh. Within this notebook is a copy of a reprint by Peter Hans Hofschneider and Kenneth Murray, in 2001.

Dates: 1972-1978
Found in: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives

Noreen Murray's curriculum vitae #1, 1987

 Item — Box CP11, Folder: 16
Identifier: SB_01_01_0438_004
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates: 1987
Found in: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives / Sydney Brenner Collection / Record Group I / Series I: Correspondence (SB/1) / Sub-Series I: Correspondence - Personal (SB/1/1) / Murray, Noreen

Noreen Murray's curriculum vitae #2, 1975

 Item — Box CP11, Folder: 16
Identifier: SB_01_01_0438_018
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Correspondence series consists of incoming and outgoing handwritten and typed letters, carbons, postcards, faxes, and telegrams generated during Sydney Brenner's career. The bulk of this series covers the late 1940s to the 2000s. Correspondents include over 30 Nobel laureates, as well as biochemists, geneticists, students, publishers, and others. Highlights of the collection include the correspondence from Francis Crick, with whom Brenner shared an office for 20 years. Topics covered...
Dates: 1975
Found in: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives / Sydney Brenner Collection / Record Group I / Series I: Correspondence (SB/1) / Sub-Series I: Correspondence - Personal (SB/1/1) / Murray, Noreen

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Bacteriophages 2
Employment references 2
Resumes (Employment) 2
Sample requests 2
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Base. Switzerland 1
Biogen (Firm) 1
Correspondence as Topic 1
DNA Modicication 1
DNA Restriction 1
Darwin Trust 1
Edinburgh, Scotland 1
Experiments 1
Genetic Engineering 1
Hepatitis B 1
Laboratory Notebooks 1
Personnel Selection 1
Program 1
Research 1
Telephone calls 1
Thank-you notes 1
Vaccines 1
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