Dr. Anne-Marie Du Bois

Title: Dr.
Prename: Anne-Marie
Surname: Du Bois
Profession: Biologist
Birthday: 1903
Date of death: 1983
Education: University studies (biology) in Neuchâtel and Geneva; 1927 doctorate; subsequently university studies at the Sorbonne in Paris
Career: 1928 International Federation of University Women (IFUW) junior fellowship to research under Richard Goldschmidt at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Biology in Berlin; 1930–32 research in the United States with a two-year Carnegie Institute scholarship; 1933 university lecturer qualification (*Habilitation*) in biology, Neuchâtel University; 1937 head of the laboratory at the Geneva University dermatological clinic; 1940 lecturer and director of laboratory tutorials at the Institut d’Histologie et d’Embryologie, École de Médicine, Geneva
Memberships: Swiss Association of University Women (SVA); 1947–53 International Federation of University Women (IFUW) Fellowships Committee; 1953 founder of the SVA fellowships committee
Biographical literature: Anne-Marie Du Bois, “Une vieille histoire toujours actuelle,” *Vierteljahresbulletin der SVA* 1/2 (1962): 213–14; Bettina Vincenz, *Biederfrauen oder Vorkämpferinnen? Der Schweizerische Verband der Akademikerinnen (SVA) in der Zwischenkriegszeit* (Baden: hier + jetzt, 2011), 104–6
Major works: *Les corrélations physiologiques entre la glande génitale et les corps jaunes chez les batraciens* (diss.; Geneva: A. Kundig, 1927); *L’intersexualité et ses causes génétiques* (Paris: Hermann, 1936)