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Ebba Lund

Ebba Lund (22 September 1923 – 21 June 1999) was a chemical engineer, microbiologist, and Danish Resistance Fighter.

Early Life
Ebba Lund was born in 1923 to parents Søren Aabye Kierkegaard L. (1875-1956) and Anna Petrea Lindberg (1890-1980). Her father was a engineer. The Copenhagen community in which she grew up was considered to be very conservative.

Resistance Work
Ebba Lund began communicating with Frit Denmark's student group, the Holger Danske, in the early years of World War Two. She would go on to join this group with her sister, Ulla, in 1943 when she was only 20 years old. Even before becoming a resistance fighter, Lund published illegal newspapers while working for Frit Denmark, which translates to "Free Denmark". This newspaper, which supported the Jewish community, would have over six million copies published by the end of the second World War. Upon becoming a part of the resistance and joining the Holger Danske resistance group, Lund became responsible for fishing boats that would secretly bring Jews to safety. Due to connections on the nearby island of Christianso, Lund was able to organize almost a dozen fishing boats for the transportation of Jews to Sweden. She also managed to convince several local landowners to provide the funding for these trips. Thanks to connections within the Holger Danske, including bribery and partnerships with members of the German army, Lund was able to avoid multiple run-ins with German forces. It is estimated that Lund's work helped 500 to 800 individuals flee to Sweden where they would be safe from persecution. While doing this work, Lund earned the nicknames "The Girl with the Red Alpine Hat" and "Little Red Riding Hood" because of the red Basque hat that she used to as a signal while working in the port. Although Holger Danske was found out by the Germans, Lund evaded persecution due to hospitalization by blood poisoning at the time of the group's downfall. Lund quit resistance work all-together in 1944 when she became pregnant with her first child, Vita. In 1985, Lund received the Ebbe Munck's Honorary Award for the work that she did with the resistance.

Research
Before her recruitment into the Holger Danske, Ebba Lund graduated from the Ingrid Jespersen School in 1942. Following her departure from resistance work, Ebba Lund went on to attend the Technical University of Denmark, where she graduated as a chemical engineer with a specialty in microbiology. Following her graduation in 1947, she was first employed at the University of Copenhagen at the Carlsberg Foundation's Biological Institute. She was later employed at the Sahlgrenska Hospital from 1954 to 1966 and at the University of Gothenburg's Faculty of Medicine in 1963. During this time Lund began her work on the polio virus, which had become prevalent in Sweden. Her primary focus was on cell culture methods for the research and diagnosis of polio. In 1963, Lund presented her dissertation resulting from her research entitled Oxidative Inactivation of Poliovirus for her P.h.D. at the University of Copenhagen. In 1966, Lund became the director of the Department of Veterinary Virology and Immunology at the University of Copenhagen. She became the first female professor at this university in 1969, and she held this position until 1993. Ebba Lund performed vast amounts of research during her time at the University of Copenhagen. Her research included work in the inactivation of viruses in wastewater and seawater as well as research in parasite toxoplasm. In particular, much of her research pertained to virus isolation from seawater and sewage waste.

Ebba Lund also participated in and assisted several organizations during her time. In particular, Lund worked with the Danish Fur Breeders Association in researching puppy disease and vaccinations in 1969. Coupled with this association, Lund was the first in the world to produce an effective antigen in cell cultures that diagnosed the disease plasmacytosis. This antigen was sold throughout Europe. Lund collaborated with the World Health Organization in 1968 on the effects of water pollution. At this time she also worked with the EC (European Commission) on the control of various diseases, such as swine fever and foot-and-mouth disease. Lund was chairman of the Danish Society of Pathology from 1970 to 1976. She was an active member and leader of the Danish Natural Conservation Association. In 1968 she became a member of the Academy of Engineering Sciences as well as a member of the Society of Sciences in 1978. From 1980 to 1990 Lund was a member of the Executive Board of the Carlsberg Foundation and chairman of the Carlsberg Laboratory. From 1986 to 1990 she was a member of both the National Council for Health Sciences Research and the Ethical Council. Lastly, Lund was chair of the Gene Technology Council from 1986 to 1991.

Lund created two textbooks: Virology for Veterinary Students, 8th edition, and Immunology for Veterinary Students, 4th edition. She also published Gene Nursing.

Personal Life
Lund withdrew from her illegal work in the resistant after becoming pregnant with her first child, Vita (1945). She would go on to have two more children, Susanne (1948) and Anders (1951). In her later years, Lund would have two spouses. She first married the Professor Soren Lovtrup in 1944, though the two divorced in 1959. Lund married a second time to Robert Berridge Dean, the Head of the Department for the United States Environmental Pollution Agency, in 1978.