Researching Margaret Kidwell
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 171 people with the Kidwell surname? In that year Kidwell was ranked number 3408 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Margaret means "child of light" and is of Persian origin.
Records of Margaret Kidwell on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Margaret Kidwell and the Kidwell Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 159 people with the Kidwell surname in the UK? Kidwell is now ranked number 3893 for popularity in the UK. |
Kidwell Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 9115 people with the Kidwell surname in the USA? Kidwell is ranked number 154 for popularity in the USA. |
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Margaret Kidwell
Margaret Gale Kidwell (born August 17, 1933) is a British American evolutionary biologist and Regents’ Professor Emerita at the University of Arizona, Tucson. She grew up on a farm in the English Midlands during World War II. After graduating from the University of Nottingham in 1953, she worked in the British Civil Service as an Agricultural Advisory Officer from 1955-1960. She moved to the US in 1960 under the auspices of a Kellogg Foundation Fellowship to study Genetics and Statistics at Iowa State University. She married quantitative geneticist James F. Kidwell in 1961, obtained her MS degree in 1962 and moved with her husband to Brown University in 1963. She received her PhD from Brown University in 1973 under the guidance of Masatoshi Nei. From 1973 to 1984 she pursued independent research into a number of anomalous genetic phenomena in Drosophila which later lead to collaborative studies resulting in the discovery of hybrid dysgenesis and the isolation of transposable P elements. After appointment as Professor of Biology at Brown University in 1984 she moved to the University of Arizona in 1985 as Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Additional positions included Chair of the Interdisciplinary Genetics Program from 1988-1991 and Head of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from 1992-1997. Research at the University of Arizona has increasingly focused on the evolutionary significance of transposable genetic elements. In 1996, she was the first woman from Arizona to be elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences
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Other names that sound a bit like Kidwell
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