Jean (Emmeline) Hanson

Jean Hanson was born in Newhall, Derbyshire, in 1919. She conducted wartime research on wound healing.

She completed a PhD and was working in the Medical Research Council's Biophysics Research Unit at King's College, London.

During this time, she began studies on the ultra structure of skeletal muscle. She became Professor of Biology at the University of London in 1966, Fellow of the Royal Society the next year, and director of specialized Muscle Biophysics Research Unit in 1970. She died in 1973.