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Mary Shaw Shorb (January 11, 1907 – August 18, 1990), a research scientist, was best known for the development of a bacteriological assay procedure for the chemical compound now known as Vitamin B12. ==Early Years== Mary Shaw was born on January 7, 1907, in Wahpeton, North Dakota, about thirty miles south of Fargo.〔"Papers of Mary S. Shorb," University of Maryland Archives, College Station, Maryland (1972).〕 Her parents were Mary McKean and Ernest Shaw. The family moved to Caldwell, Idaho when Mary was three years old. She developed an early interest in biology through a neighbor and family friend, Dr. William Judson Boone. Founder and first President of the College of Idaho, Dr. Boone was a well-known botanist, and taught biology at the College.〔Richard A. Ahrens, "Mary Shaw Shorb (1907–1990)," The Journal of Nutrition, Vol. 123, American Institute Nutrition (1993) pp 791–796.〕 During fishing trips that turned into "teaching moments," he taught her about edible mushrooms and sparked a lifelong interest in native wildflowers. Mary graduated from Caldwell High School and started classes at the College of Idaho in 1924. Outside of her college schoolwork, she served as Director of a Founders Day celebration and as Editor of the college yearbook, ''The Trail''. She graduated in 1928 with a B. S. degree in biology and a minor in Home Economics. Mary's older brother was then attending medical school at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. She landed a job there as a dietitian, although she had to take a "crash course," on the job, to adapt her background to the work. Dissatisfied with that direction, she looked for something else. Mary discovered that the School of Hygiene was hiring under a new grant to study the common cold. She was quickly hired as a research technician. By the time the money ran out on the grant, Mary had decided to pursue a doctorate in immunology. By then she was married to childhood sweetheart Doys Shorb. Doys entered the Johns Hopkins graduate program in parasitology. Mary Shaw Shorb received her Sc.D. from Hopkins in 1933.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Shaw Shorb」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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