Celia White Tabor (November 15, 1918 – December 2, 2012) was an American biochemist and physician-scientist who was an expert on the biosynthesis of polyamines.
In 1943, White was one of 6 women in her class to graduate from the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons.
[1] From 1946 to 1952, Tabor was a biochemical researcher at George Washington University and an attending physician at District of Columbia General Hospital.
[2] In 1986, Tabor and her husband won the Hillebrand Prize from the Chemical Society of Washington.
The couple met through mutual friends six years earlier on a Boston streetcar.