Mary Belle Allen
Mary Belle Allen | |
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Mary Belle Allen, Kaiser Permanente, 1959 | |
| Born | November 11, 1922 |
| Died | 1973 (aged 50–51) |
| Alma mater | University of California, Columbia University |
| Father | Frederick Madison Allen |
| Awards | Darbaker Prize, 1962 |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Botany, chemistry, biochemical microbiology |
| Institutions | Hopkins Marine Station, University of California, Berkeley, Kaiser Permanente, University of Alaska |
| Author abbrev. (botany) | M.B.Allen |
Mary Belle Allen (November 11, 1922, Morristown, New Jersey –1973, Fairbanks, Alaska) was an American botanist, chemist, mycologist, algologist, and plant pathologist, and a pioneer of biochemical microbiology. With Daniel I. Arnon and F. Robert Whatley, she did breakthrough research discovering and demonstrating the role of chloroplasts in photosynthesis. In 1962 she received the Darbaker Prize from the Botanical Society of America for her work on microbial algae. In 1967 she was nominated jointly (but unsuccessfully) with Arnon and Whatley for a Nobel Prize.
The abbreviation M.B.Allen is used to indicate Mary Belle Allen as the author of the description and scientific classification of genera and species. (Consult IPNI).