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= Ursula Mittwoch = Ursula Mittwoch (March 21, 1924 - April 26, 2021) was a Jewish geneticist. After fleeing from Nazi persecution in Berlin, Mittwoch and her family relocated to the UK in 1938. She was the first PhD student in the Galton Laboratory of University College London and later became a professor. Her work helped to demonstrate that sex determination is not a switch but rather a spectrum.

Early Life and education
Mittwoch was born in Berlin, Germany on March 21, 1924. She was the first of three daughters of Anna Hermine née Lipmann and Eugen Mittwoch the professor of Oriental language at Friedrich Wilhelm University and founder of Modern Islamic Studies in Germany.

She attended a small private humanistic gymnasium where she learned Latin as her first foreign language until 1938. Her interest in science was fostered through gifts of Brehms Tierleben books. Her education was cut short for two reasons. In 1933 her father was forced to retire from his academic position by Hitler and Hermann Göring. The Mittwoch family decided to emigrate to the United Kingdom Kristallnacht.

Obtained her bachelors from Chelsea polytechnic, London 1947.

Academic career and research
Mittwoch translated Letalfaktoren in ihrer Bedeutung für Erbpathologie und Genphysiologie der Entwicklung by Ernst Hadorn into Developmental genetics and lethal factors.

Works

 * Genetics of Sex Differentiation (1973)

Personal Life
Mittwoch married Bernard Victor Springer on December 21, 1954. They had one daughter together.

Membership and achievements

 * Royal Society of Medicine
 * Zoological Society
 * British Genetical Society

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/news/2021/apr/professor-ursula-mittwoch-21031924-26042021

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/nq22xx3d

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajmg.1320550104

https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10145460/1/Ursula%20Mittwoch%20obituary.pdf

https://genmedhist.eshg.org/fileadmin/content/website-layout/interviewees-attachments/Mittwoch,%20Ursula.pdf

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ahg.12461

https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/235794/1/Women_in_Early_%20Human_Cytogenetics.pdf

Looking for ~10 different sources. Preferably with a comprehensive obituary.

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ex. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5560522/, https://www.jfcr.or.jp/princehitachiprize/e/2000.html


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 * WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by occupation/Biologists for new person