Cecilia Lutwak-Mann (1900(?)-1987) was a Polish-British endocrinologist and physiologist.
Career
editShe was educated at the University of Lviv (now in Ukraine), where she obtained a doctorate of medicine.[2] She studied the menstrual cycle, cellular respiration, and embryology,[3] and served as chief scientific officer of the Agricultural Research Council of Great Britain.[4]
Lutwak-Mann was known for discovering that the hormone progesterone acts on the placenta to control carbonic anhydrase synthesis.[5] She also co-authored the then-reference text on male reproductive function and semen ("Male Reproductive Function and Semen: Themes and Trends in Physiology, Biochemistry and Investigative Andrology", 1981) with Thaddeus Mann.[6]
Personal life
editLutwak-Mann married Thaddeus Mann, in 1934, after they met in medical school. She was Jewish, and moved to Britain in 1935 to continue her research at Cambridge. She died in 1987.[2]
References
edit- ^ Davenport, Horace W. (1 June 1984). "The Early Days of Research on Carbonic Anhydrase" (PDF). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 429 (1): 4–9. Bibcode:1984NYASA.429....4D. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1984.tb12310.x. hdl:2027.42/73862. ISSN 1749-6632. PMID 6430175.
- ^ a b Harrison, Robin (9 December 1993). "Watcher of the wriggling cells: Obituary: Thaddeus Mann". The Guardian. Manchester, UK.
- ^ Ogilvie, Marilyn Bailey; Harvey, Joy Dorothy (1 January 2000). The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: L-Z. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9780415920407.
- ^ "Vassar Miscellany News". Vassar Newspaper Archive. 10 April 1963. Retrieved 5 February 2016.
- ^ Davenport, Horace W. (1 April 1980). "Carbonic Anhydrase, or the Strange Case of the Disappearing Scientist". The Physiologist. 23 (2): 11–15. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.596.3521. PMID 6770392.
- ^ "Obituary: Professor Thaddeus Mann". The Independent. 9 December 1993. Retrieved 5 February 2016.