Brigitte Alice Askonas FRS FMedSci (1 April 1923 – 9 January 2013)[4] was a British immunologist[6] and a visiting professor at Imperial College London from 1995.

[3][8][9][10][11] Her role models in the department included two distinguished scientists, Marjory Stephenson and Dorothy Needham,[4] two of the first women to be elected to the Royal Society.

At the NIMR she began researching the biosynthesis of polypeptides in milk proteins discovering that the peptides were synthesised from amino acids rapidly in one piece.

[9] She wrote several biographies of high-profile scientists, including Niels Kaj Jerne,[14] César Milstein[15] and John Herbert Humphrey.

[16] Askonas conducted a filmed interview with Stanley Peart as a segment of what became the Medical Sciences Video Archive[17] housed in the special collections of the library at Oxford Brookes University.