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Mary-Lou Pardue, Ph.D..
Mary-Lou Pardue
American geneticist (1933–2024)
Mary-Lou Pardue (September 15, 1933 – June 1, 2024) was an American geneticist who was a professor emerita in the Department of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which she originally joined in 1972.
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Her research focused on the role of telomeres in chromosome replication, particularly in Drosophila (fruit flies).[1][2] Pardue died on June 1, 2024, at the age of 90.[3]
Early life and education
Pardue was born in Lexington, Kentucky on September 15, 1933.[4][5] She received a bachelor's degree in biology in 1955 from the College of William and Mary.
Pardue received a master's degree in radiation biology in 1959 from the University of Tennessee, where she had been eligible for a Ph.D. but convinced the department to give her the master's degree instead, later explaining in an interview that "in the society I was in it was quite all right for a wife to be goin