Aslaug Sverdrup Sømme

Aslaug Sverdrup Sømme (June 3, 1891 – April 9, 1955) was a Norwegian plant scientist and geneticist.

In 1910 Sømme enrolled at the University of Oslo's Institute for Genetic Research (Institut for Arvelighetsforskning) in Kristiania, Norway, where she studied zoology, specifically plankton. She graduated in 1918, and by 1919 was appointed as an assistant professor (amanuensis), becoming only the second women ever to hold a research position at the university.[1]

Upon hearing of the growing work being done by William Bateson on genetics at the John Innes Horticultural Institute in the UK, Sømme wrote to Bateson requesting to join him working on Primula sinensis, crossing the North Sea in 1921, initially as a volunteer. Sømme remained in England until 1926, at which point she returned to Norway to take up the position of lecturer in genetics at the University of Oslo. [1]

References
  1. Telefon, Besøksadresse Kristian Ottosens husProblemveien 9 Blindern Postadresse MUV Postboks 1077 Blindern 0316 OSLO. "Plankton, polydactyli og primula: Aslaug Sverdrup Sømme - Museum for universitets- og vitenskapshistorie". www.muv.uio.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2019-03-06.


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