[2] During the war she collaborated with Alexander Hollaender, Milislav Demerec and a young Esther M. Zimmer at the United States Public Health Service (Bethesda, Maryland), publishing in the very early field of x-ray- and UV-induced mutations.

[4] In the late 1950s she was registered at University College Ibadan, though on placement to Long Island Biological Laboratories.

Subsequent work established that both oospores and myceliuum are diploid in several Peronosporales genera.

[6] A Reader in the Department of Botany at Ahmadu Bello University in the mid-1960s, she and her husband supported eliminating the Igbo from Northern Nigeria at the time of the 1966 anti-Igbo pogrom.

[8] After her husband's death in 1981, Sansome moved to live with her son's family in Warwickshire.