Kitty Ponse

She was a professor at the University of Geneva and received the Swiss Otto Naegeli Prize in 1961.

[4] While the focus of her earlier research and publications was pure zoology, including tail regeneration in lizards, she later developed a particular interest in sex determination and sexual differentiation in amphibians.

[5] Her work on sexual differentiation in vertebrates was compiled in her 1949 book La différenciation du sexe et l'intersexualité.

She also collaborated with French biologist Émile Guyénot on the first purifications of gonadotropin hormones from the pituitary.

[1] Ponse taught at the University of Geneva for over forty years and was appointed a professor of experimental endocrinology in 1961.