Marion Fyfe

Marion Liddell Fyfe (1 September 1897 – 26 August 1986) was a New Zealand academic, specialising in taxonomy of planarians and other flatworms, the first woman zoology lecturer at the University of Otago, and the first woman to be elected to the Council of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

Marion Fyfe
Fyfe in 1948
Born
Marion Liddell Fyfe

(1897-09-01)1 September 1897
Kakanui, New Zealand
Died26 August 1986(1986-08-26) (aged 88)
Alma materUniversity of Otago
Scientific career
FieldsPlanarian taxonomy and reproduction
InstitutionsUniversity of Otago
RelativesElizabeth Edgar (niece)
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