Mary C. Pangborn
{{short description|American science fiction writer}}
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| birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, US
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| occupation = Scientist, writer
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| relatives = Edgar Pangborn (brother)
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| education = Smith College, Yale University
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Mary C. Pangborn (August 13, 1907 – February 20, 2003) was an American scientist and writer of science fiction.
Youth
Born in Brooklyn, Pangborn attended the Friends School. Science fiction author Edgar Pangborn was her younger brother.
She graduated from high school at age 14, and entered Smith College a year later.
Scientific work
At Smith, Pangborn received the Frances A. Hause prize for excellence in chemistry and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-springfield-daily-republican-local-c/155927006/ |title=Local College Student Honored |newspaper=The Springfield Daily Republican |page=5 |date=1927-03-21 |access-date=2024-09-24 |via=Newspapers.com}} She graduated with a PhD from Yale in 1931.{{cite dissertation |author=Mary C. Pangborn |title=Chemical investigations of the lipoids of the timothy bacillus | year=1931 |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/34051567 }}{{Cite magazine |url=https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/3275 |title=Recent alumni deaths |magazine=Yale Alumni Magazine |date=Sep–Oct 2011 |access-date=2025-02-25 }} In 1942, she discovered the biologically important lipid cardiolipin.{{cite journal |author=Pangborn M.|title=Isolation and purification of a serologically active phospholipid from beef heart|journal=J. Biol. Chem.| year=1942 | volume=143 | pages=247–256|doi=10.1016/S0021-9258(18)72683-5|doi-access=free}}
Fiction
Pangborn published at least one poem{{Cite magazine |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1943/03/nocturne/656980/ |title=Nocturne |magazine=The Atlantic |date=March 1943 |access-date=2025-02-25 }} and, later in life, a number of pieces of short fiction in noted anthologies and in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Her only novel, Friar Bacon's Head, remained unpublished as of her death.{{cite news |last1=Davis Nicoll |first1=James |title=Fighting Erasure: Women SF Writers of the 1970s, Part VIII |url=https://www.tor.com/2018/06/18/fighting-erasure-women-sf-writers-of-the-1970s-part-viii/ |accessdate=19 June 2018 |work=Tor.com |date=18 June 2018}}
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Category:American science fiction writers
Category:American women short story writers
Category:Writers from Brooklyn
Category:Place of death missing
Category:20th-century American short story writers
Category:American women science fiction and fantasy writers
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:Brooklyn Friends School alumni
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