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- Rebecca Lancefield, formerly known as Rebecca Craighill, was born in Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York, on January 5, 1895. Her parents were William E. Craighill, a colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Mary Wortley Byram, who was a descendant of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu was known for advocating for smallpox vaccination.
- Lancefield graduated from Wellesley College and in 1918 became a technical assistant at Rockefeller Institute. In 1925 she obtained a Ph.D. in immunology and bacteriology at Columbia University.
- For over four decades, Rebecca Lancefield worked at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (currently known as the Rockefeller University). During this time, she gained international recognition as a leading expert in the field of streptococcal bacteria. She also created the classification system for streptococci that carries her name, and this system remains in use today.
- CLASSIFYING STREPTOCOCCI
- Good morning! I am Rebecca Lancefield and I will be presenting a classification system for streptococci
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