Kristine Bonnevie
| Kristine Bonnevie | |
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| Born |
8 October 1872 Trondhjem |
| Died | 30 August 1948 (aged 75) Oslo |
| Residence |
Trondhjem Kristiania Oslo |
| Citizenship | Norway |
| Fields |
Cytology genetics embryology |
| Institutions | Royal Frederick University |
| Doctoral advisor |
Arnold Lang Theodor Boveri Johan Hjort |
| Doctoral students | Thor Heyerdahl |
| Known for | First female professor in Norway First female member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Bonnevie-Ullrich Syndrome Studies on Papillary of Patterns Human Fingers |
| Influences |
Theodor Boveri Arnold Lang |
| Notable awards |
King's Medal of Merit in gold 1920 Order of St. Olav, 1st class "Fridtjof Nansen's reward", 1935 Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 1911 |
Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie (8 October 1872 – 30 August 1948) was a Norwegian biologist and Norway's first female professor. Her fields of research were cytology, genetics and embryology.
She was the fifth of seven children to Jacob Aall Bonnevie (1838–1904) and Anne Johanne Daae (1839–1876). Jacob Aall Bonnevie had his eighth and ninth children with his second wife Susanne Bryn (1848-1927). Her family moved from Trondhjem to Kristiania in 1886.
Bonnevie never married. Her sister Honoria, the eldest child of Jacob and Anne, married Norwegian physicist and meteorologist Vilhelm Bjerknes.
Bonnevie took her examen artium in 1892, began studying zoology in 1892, later switching to biology. She completed her doctoral dissertation, "Undersøgelser over kimcellerne hos Enteroxenos østergreni" (studies on the germ cells of Enteroxenos østergreni) in 1906. She also studied under Arnold Lang in Zürich from 1898-99, under Theodor Boveri in Würzburg in 1900-01, and under Edmund Beecher Wilson at Columbia University in New York from 1906-07. She succeeded Johan Hjort as leader of the Zootomic laboratory in 1900. She was a professor at Royal Frederick University from 1912 to 1937, and founded the Institute of Inheritance Research in 1916.
In 1911, Bonnevie became the first female member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Later, she founded the Norwegian Association for Female Academics, leading it from 1922-1925. She established a study home for young girls in 1916 and a students' house in 1923. Bonnevie was a member of the University's broadcasting committee from 1927 to 1937. Thor Heyerdahl was one of her students in the 1930s.
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