Anderson, Margaret (1900–1997)

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Anderson, Margaret (1900–1997)

English biochemist and indexer. Name variations: Margaret Dampier Whetham Anderson. Born Margaret Dampier Whetham, April 21, 1900, in England; died 1997; m. Alan Bruce Anderson (clinical pathologist), Sept 12, 1927.

Served as biochemical researcher at Newnham College in Cambridge (1920–27) and worked with Marjory Stephenson on projects, including the washed cell suspensions technique for cell analysis; coauthored 4 papers with Stephenson; served as abstractor for British Chemical Abstracts (1948–51) and Food Science Abstracts (1950–57); became freelance indexer at age 60 (1960) and compiled indexes for 567 books (both scientific and non-scientific); for Society of Indexers, served as treasurer (1965–72), membership secretary, member of board of assessors, and vice president; received Wheatley Medal in 1975 (for index to Copy-editing: The Cambridge Handbooks) and the Carey Award (1983). Works include: Book Indexing (1971), Cambridge Readings in the Literature of Science (with W.C.D. Whetham, 1924), and Reformers and Rebels (1946).

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