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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.
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