Margaret Jope


Margaret Jope was a Scottish biochemist, born Henrietta Margaret Halliday in Peterhead, Scotland. She carried out research into brachiopods.

Biography

She took her degree in chemistry at the University of Aberdeen, and her DPhil at Somerville College, Oxford. She met her future husband Martyn Jope while working at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory at University of Oxford. After their marriage she accompanied him to Belfast, where he later became Professor of Archaeology at Queen's University.
In 1940 she was a co-author with Thomas Harold Reade on a paper in The Journal of Chemical Society.
Jope continued her research while at Belfast, in the Geology Department, where she worked primarily on brachiopods, in particular their shell protein. Her other research interests included the crystallisation of haemoglobin, and working with her husband, made studies of animal bones, especially bird bones, at archaeological sites mainly in Northern Ireland and Oxfordshire.

Papers on brachiopods