Neva Abelson
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Neva Martin Abelson (November 19, 1910-September 26, 2000) was a distinguished research physician who co-discovered the life-saving blood test for the Rh blood factor (with Louis K. Diamond).
She graduated from Washington State University with a B.S. degree in chemistry. After medical school she became a pediatrician. Her research at the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a professor of clinical pathology, involved blood groups, blood diseases of infants, and the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis. She published a book, Topics in Blood Banking, in 1974. She received the Emily Cooley Memorial Award from the American Association of Blood Banks.
She was married to Philip Abelson (1913-2004), a physicist, science writer and longtime editor of Science magazine.
Their daughter, Dr. Ellen Abelson Cherniavsky, now retired, worked as an aviation researcher at The MITRE Corporation in Virginia.
References
- Washington State University Regents' Distinguished Alumnus Award to Neva Martin Abelson (No. 23)
- University of Pennsylvania Obituaries for Faculty & Staff
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