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36: 261:. In the late 1910s, prior to completing her PhD, she taught biology classes for women and throughout the 1920s she would give lectures on biology, health, and human genetics to various women's groups including the 297:
Between 1937 and her death she made many valuable contributions to the study of human genetics, and became a globally-renowned expert on multiple births. She was the first person to apply
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MacArthur, J.; Ford, N. Blatz, WE (ed.). "A biological study of the Dionne quintuplets: an identical set". Collected studies on the Dionne quintuplets. University of Toronto Press: 3–49.
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at many Canadian universities. Her academic career spanned six decades and she published prolifically in both human genetics and entomology. She was elected a
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Ford, Norma (1936). "Further observations on the behaviour of Wohlfahrtia vigil (Walk.) with notes on the collecting and rearing of the flies".
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as a research field. Though she began her academic career as an entomologist, working as an invertebrate zoologist at the
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Miller, Fiona (2002). "The Importance of Being Marginal: Norma Ford Walker and a Canadian School of Medical Genetics".
782: 217:, she became interested in medical genetics in the 1930s, and researched the medical genetics of the then famous 677:; Ford Walker, N. (1956). "Notation for serum-protein groups and the genes control- ling their inheritance". 287: 585: 250: 214: 99: 806: 801: 737: 686: 269: 258: 225:
and between 1947 and 1962, was the first director of the Department of Genetics at what was then the
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were truly genetically identical, and left entomology behind. In 1943, she married Edmund Walker.
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Smithies, O.; Ford Walker, N. (1955). "Genetic control of some serum proteins in normal humans".
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Ford, Norma (1932). "bservations on the behaviour of the Sarcophagid fly, Wohlfahrtia vigil".
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Ford Walker, Norma (1957). "The use of dermal configurations in the diagnosis of Mongolism".
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to Norman W. Ford and Margaret Henrietta Dyke She entered into a BA degree at the
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History And Development Of Human Genetics, The: Progress In Different Countries
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A Comparative Study of the Abdominal Musculature of Orthopteroid Insects
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A comparative study of the abdominal musculature of orthopteroid insects
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Miller, Fiona (2008). "Remembering Norma Ford Walker (1893–1968)".
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University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Services
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Norma Henrietta Carswell Ford was born September 3, 1893, at
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Ford, Norma (1925–1926). "On the behaviour of Grylloblata".
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Thompson, Margaret (1968). "Norma Ford Walker 1893-1968".
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genetics in her lab and with him, demonstrated that
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St. Thomas, Ontario
Toronto
Canadian
University of Toronto
Genetic Counseling
Dionne Quintuplets
Medical Genetics
Entomology
Dermatoglyphics
Toronto Hospital for Sick Children
Thesis
Doctoral advisor
Edmund Murton Walker
Irene Uchida
medical genetics
University of Toronto
Dionne Quintuplets
American Society of Human Genetics
Toronto Hospital for Sick Children
human genetics
Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
St Thomas, Ontario
University of Toronto
zoology
Edmund Murton Walker
Girl Guides
invertebrate zoology
Grylloblatteria

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