Lady Julia Gwynaeth Bodmer (née Pilkington); Sir Walter Fred Bodmer Greetings Card

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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.

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