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Edith Blbring, FRS was a British scientist in the field of smooth muscle physiology, one of the first women accepted to the Royal Society as a fellow . She was Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Oxford , later Emeritus Professor and member of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
Edith Blbring was born in Bonn onDecember 1903 to Hortense Leonore Blbring , the Dutch daughter of a Jewish banker from The Hague, and Dr. Karl Blbring, a German Professor of English at the University of Bonn . Although her mother came from a Jewish background and her father was Protestant, Edith was atheist. She was the youngest of four children . At the age of six, Edith began to learn the piano and she appeared to be very talented. During World War I Edith and her two older sisters moved to The Hague, the Netherlands to stay with their uncle, the prominent Royal banker Jacobus Henricus Kann. Hans, her brother, was a soldier in WWI and was killed in 1918. Although she became a proficient piano player, she decided to study medicine instead of music, a fact that surprised her teacher as Edith had shown real talent.
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