She was the only girl in her class who dared to handle a three-foot black constrictor snake, for which she won a can of rattlesnake meat.

In Chicago, she worked on reducing the spread of respiratory diseases and was a member of a research team that developed a vaccine for cholera.

[4] In 1945, she joined him in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and spent a year working on the Manhattan Project, researching the biological effects of radiation.

[5] In 1949, she moved with Daniel to Boston, where Marian spent two years in a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School's Department of Bacteriology.

Legend has it that at the annual meeting of the American Association of Immunology where she first presented her data, her talk was received by a standing ovation—quite high praise indeed.

Berkeley; Catherine has served as executive vice chancellor and provost since July 1, 2021,[8] and Douglas is a professor of molecular and cell biology.