Tyne Tames, first female professor in Groningen in 1919, receives a biography

In the biography, the international scientific achievements of “Tine Tammes” will not only be discussed, but also included in academic life in Groningen between 1900 and 1940, reports the University of Groningen.

Ida Stammhuis won the 1996 US History of Women in Science award for her article on Tyne Thames.

talented and persistent

The University of Groningen wrote on June 23, 1871, the year Aletta Jacobs became the first woman to study, and Tyne Tams was born at Biberstraat in Groningen.

It turns out she was ‘a very talented girl who puts her heart and soul into science.’ That while she was not allowed to take the academic exams, because the girls’ high school did not allow her to go to university. Not only was she talented, but she was also stubborn. In Jean Willem Moll, a science professor Plant, she had someone who used the “Big Boys” network for her.She was able to work for a while at Hugo de Vries from Amsterdam and developed into a practitioner of genetics, a new and growing field at the time.In 1919 she became the first female professor in Groningen.

Pioneering work

Thames did pioneering work internationally, but was rooted in Groningen.

You’ve convincingly shown that you can also explain the inheritance of things like height with Mendel’s laws of inheritance. She was able to do this on the basis of the results of experiments: crosses of flax species grown in the Botanical Garden of the University of Groningen, located between Grote Kruisstraat and Grote Rozenstraat. This answered a pressing question from the beginning of genetics.

Matilda effect

However, her work was not appreciated; Foreign male colleagues were able to attract more interest with less convincing research. The fact that women’s scientific work is often underestimated is sometimes referred to as Matilda’s influence in science – after suffrage in English.