Spiegel-Adolf, Mona

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SPIEGEL-ADOLF, MONA

SPIEGEL-ADOLF, MONA (Anna Simona ; 1893–1983), colloid chemist. Spiegel-Adolf studied medicine in her native Vienna and worked there on medical colloid chemistry until 1931, when she became professor of colloid chemistry at the medical school of Temple University, Philadelphia. Her research covered physical chemistry of proteins and lipids, cancer, amaurotic family idiocy, etc. She wrote Die Globuline (1930) and co-authored X-ray Diffraction Studies in Biology and Medicine (1947).