Porter, Mary Winearls (1886–1980)

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Porter, Mary Winearls (1886–1980)

English crystallographer. Born Mary "Polly" Winearls Porter, July 26, 1886; died Nov 25, 1980; dau. of a Times correspondent; Somerville College, Oxford, BS, 1918, and DSc, 1932.

Worked as a cataloguer at Oxford's University Museum (1905–07), National Museum in Washington, DC (1911–12) and Bryn Mawr College (1913–14); served as crystallographer researcher in Heidelberg (1914–15) and Oxford's University Museum (1916–59); was a fellow of Mineralogical Society of America (1921–27) and council member of Mineralogical Society of Great Britain (1918–21, 1929–32); co-edited The Barker Index of Crystals (1951, 1956 and 1963).

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