Lady Julia Gwynaeth Bodmer (née Pilkington); Sir Walter Fred Bodmer Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Lady Julia Gwynaeth Bodmer (née Pilkington); Sir Walter Fred Bodmer NPG x88755
© Norman McBeath / National Portrait Gallery, London
by Norman McBeath
Geneticist and economist, Bodmer's groundbreaking research explored the relationship between the immune system and genetics. This played a key role in the discovery of the system of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and developed understanding and treatments of AIDS and cancer. After studying philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford, she became a statistician assistant at Cambridge University. She collaborated with her husband, the geneticist Walter Bodmer, with both joining the Cancer Research Fund in 1979 and establishing a laboratory in Oxford to research genetic variation... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










