Agnes Arber did 'much of her most important work' in a lab she set up in her Cambridge home.
Agnes Arber "spent a large proportion of her career working in a small laboratory in her own house rather than having a formal position and space", said Cambridge University
Prof Sam Brockington, from Cambridge University Botanic Garden, said he hoped the prize "will support the next generation of pioneering botanists, following in the footsteps of Agnes". James Littlewood, chief executive of Cambridge Past, Present and Future, said: "We are very pleased that the 39th plaque will be put on the Cambridge house where Agnes not only lived, but where she set up a laboratory and did so much of her most important work.”
At this time, the University of Cambridge did not allow women to join practical classes in its laboratories and would not grant them degrees until 1948.
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