Lewis, Margaret Reed (1881–1970)
Lewis, Margaret Reed (1881–1970)
American anatomist and physiologist. Name variations: Margaret Adaline Reed Lewis; Margaret Adaline Reed. Born Margaret Adaline Reed, Nov 9, 1881, in Kittaning, PA; died July 20, 1970; dau. of Martha Adaline (Walker) Reed and Joseph Cable Reed; Goucher College, AB, 1901; m. Warren Harmon Lewis (anatomist, editor of "Gray's Anatomy," partner and colleague), May 23, 1910; children: Margaret Nast Lewis, Warren Reed Lewis, and Jessica Lewis Myers.
Tissue culture expert and world-renowned authority on tumors, lectured at New York Medical College for Women in physiology (1904–07) and zoology (1905–06); lectured in biology at Barnard College (1907–09); was a biology instructor at Columbia University (1907–09); at Carnegie Institute of Washington in Baltimore, worked as a department of Embryology collaborator (1915–26) and research associate (1927–46); was a Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology guest investigator (1940–46), then a member (1946–64) and an emerita member (after 1958); studied regeneration in crayfish, embryology of amphibians, culturing bone marrow and spleen cells (from a guinea pig); credited as the 1st to achieve a successful mammalian tissue culture. With husband, received the Pathological Society of Philadelphia's William Wood Gerhard Gold Medal (1938); received a star in Cattell's American Men of Science (6th ed., 1938).