TEST-TUBE TEETH

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 244, 9 October 1939, Page 1

TEST-TUBE TEETH

WOM A N\S AC HIEY MM KNT NKAVCASI LMOX- P VNIO, A tig. ;3. : ~ Mrs. Shirley Hughes. JO-yea r-qld scientist -.villi a dream that some clay men and women of 90 will have perfect teeth, was cheered in Newcastle today by odd den lists. Members of the British Dental Association and. dental surgeons Iroln Jlollamll Norway, South Africa and Palestine stood toi applaud her as -she walked up the conference- hull to receive; the; Howard Mummery prize*— the Nohel prize of dentistry. She.took the vellum and the cheque for ol) gns., said “ I hank \ou, ’ and returned to her seat. It was over in three minutes. But to become the* central figure in that ceremony Mrs. Hughes had given up a CIiUU-n-.venr pest, worked live years in a laboratory at Cambridge University. When she was Miss (lias-, young school dentist, she met a research .scientist weiking in tin* laboratory.. They married. He talked to her of his experiments. Sin* decided she wanted to experiment, too; gave up her school post for a 111-a-week. .appointment in the laboratory. There sin* achieved the “impossible.” Shi* grew living tooth in a test tube. Because oil' her work it was decided that, for the first time the Mummery prize should go to a woman—"lor fJie most outsanding research work ol the • past three years.”