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South Polar Chart
Chart showing tracks of expeditions to Antarctica -
A Voyage Round the World Chart
Chart showcasing Cook's second voyage, with the pole labeled as the Southern Icy Ocean. -
A Voyage Round the World Text
Text from A Voyage Round the World showcasing the conditions met on the journey, and the search for Antarctica -
Hydrogenase: a bacterial enzyme activating molecular hydrogen
This document is a copy of one of Marjory Stephenson's, along with her colleague L.H. Strickland, most important papers, the discovery of the hydrogenase enzyme. It is just one of her many research papers on enzymes that laid the foundation for detailed studies of metabolism, both in bacteria and higher-level organisms. -
Topics in Marjory Stephenson's Bacterial Metabolism Monograph, Third Edition
Marjory Stephenson's Bacterial Metabolism is a collection of the most important techniques, studies, and information regarding the fields of chemical microbiology and bacterial biochemistry, citing numerous scientists and scientific papers, several of them her own. This photo contains its table of contents and the last few paragraphs of her own introduction to this monograph. -
Official Portrait of Marjory Stephenson, 1940
This photo of Marjory Stephenson, taken by Walter Stoneman in 1940, is housed at the National Portrait Gallery in London, UK. It is one of the few photos that exist of her. -
A Proposed Society for General Microbiology
This document details the proposal for the Society of General Microbiology to be established, including why such a society needs to be created, how the society is to be named and operated, the expected rules and guidelines the society aims to follow, and a list of people that are involved, later known as the Society's Original Members and Inaugural Committee. -
Society for General Microbiology List of Original Members (1944)
This document contains a list of the original members of Europe's first and largest microbiology society, the Society of General Microbiology. Founded in 1944 by Marjory Stephenson and Sir Alexander Fleming, it allowed scientists a chance to collaborate and build a community together in the newly emerging fields of bacterial biochemistry and general microbiology.