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Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker

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In honour of her contributions to the Japanese aquaculture and role in rescuing the commercial production of nori, she was named Mother of the Sea in Japan, and since 1953, an annual "Drew festival" is celebrated in the city of
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to collect botanical samples. Kathleen married Manchester academic Henry Wright-Baker in 1928, which resulted in her dismissal by the university which had a policy of not employing married women. Drew-Baker was awarded an
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had developed artificial seeding techniques, building on her work. This in turn increased production and led to a significant increase in production in the Japanese seaweed industry.
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Although Drew-Baker never travelled to Japan, her academic research made a lasting contribution to the development of commercial
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is the macroscopic, haploid stage. Her critical discovery was that at the microscopic conchocelis stage,
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Between 1924 and 1947 Drew-Baker published 47 academic papers mainly concerned with red algae. Her book
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Drew, Kathleen M. (1949). "Conchocelis-phase in the life-history of Porphyra umbilicalis (L.) Kütz".
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in 1928, and they had two children, John Rendle and K. Frances Biggs. She was a member of the
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and being awarded a research fellowship in the university's Laboratory of Cryptogamic Botany.
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Kathleen Drew-Baker's scientific legacy is revered in Japan, where she has been named
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Finding Nori — How an unpaid UK researcher saved the Japanese seaweed industry
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production in the country. Drew-Baker studied the life cycle of the red algae
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Drew-Baker died on 14 September 1957. A memorial service held for her at the
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provided an essential host environment for the development of the red algae.
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Drew-Baker's investigations were soon read and replicated by the Japanese
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Research Scholarship in 1922, and in later years joining the staff of the
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was published by the University of California Press, Berkeley, in 1928.
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in 1949, Drew-Baker detailed her research showing that the microscopic
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Sokichi Segawa, who applied Drew-Baker's findings to the Japanese
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International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950
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Index

Kathleen Drew-Baker
Drew Baker

Leigh, Lancashire
Manchester
University of Manchester
Porphyra umbilicalis
Phycology
University of Manchester
University of California, Berkeley
Author abbrev. (botany)
phycologist
Porphyra umbilicalis
nori
Uto, Kumamoto
Leigh, Lancashire
Bishop Wordsworth's School
Salisbury
University of Manchester
MSc
DSc
cryptogamic
botany
University of Manchester
University of California, Berkeley
Commonwealth Fellowship
Hawaii
Ashburne Hall
Manchester Department of Botany
nori

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