Philippa Marion Wiggins (nee Glasgow) FRSNZ (16 July 1925 – 16 March 2017) was a New Zealand academic, who made significant contributions to the understanding of the structure of water in living cells.
Having switched to chemistry, Wiggins then won a scholarship to research at the Davy-Faraday Laboratory at the Royal Institution in London.
[3] Upon returning to New Zealand, Wiggins worked at the University of Canterbury with Walter Metcalf from 1962–1966.
From 1970, she continued her research in the Department of Medicine at the University of Auckland, as Professor of Membrane Physiology.
[1] In 1994 Wiggins co-founded BiostoreNZ, which commercialised preservation and storage technology for cells.