Margaret Hume
English nutritionist (1887-1968)
Eleanor Muriel Margaret Hume (often known as Margaret or Margot Hume, 1887–1968) was an English botanist, nutritionist and science editor. After lecturing in botany in South Africa and England, she studied nutrition at the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine and wrote for and edited several nutrition journals.
Education and early career
Educated at Eastbourne Ladies' College, Hume studied the natural sciences tripos at Newnham College, Cambridge, receiving a first class pass in Part II in 1910. She then received a Bathurst studentship to continue her studies, working at the Botany School on her first publications, including a paper engaging with the graft hybrid controversy which was the focus of William Bateson. She also worked on galia under the supervision of Arthur Tansley.
In 1913, Hume worked as lecturer in botany at the South African College at the University of the Cape of Good Hope, returning to England in 1916 to work in munitions. She delivered lectures in biology at University College, London in 1918.
Lister Institute
In 1919 she joined the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine in London, where she would remain until 1959. The Institute studied the preventative effects of nutrition. For example, Hume conducted preliminary research in a foundling hospital in Vienna which contributed to Harriette Chick's proof that rickets was caused by deficiencies in diet rather than by microbes.
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