Kristine Bonnevie — Wikipedia

Kristine Bonnevie ( October 8, 1872 Trondheim – August 30, 1948 Oslo) is a Norwegian biologist and the first woman professor of this country. His areas of research are cytology, genetics and embryology.

In 1911, she became the first woman member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters.

The Venusian Crater Bonnevie bears his name in his honor ^{[ first ]} .

Kristine Bonnevie is the daughter of the author and educator Jacob Aall Bonnevie and Anne Johanne Daae. She is the fifth child of a siblings of seven. Jacob Aall Bonnevie will have two other children from a second marriage to Susanne Bryn ^{[ 2 ]} .

In 1892, Kristine Bonnevie brought his artium exam, certification which allowed him to be admitted to Royal Frederick University (today University of Oslo), where she began her medical studies but quickly turned into zoology ^{[ 3 ]} . From 1898 to 1899, she trained in cytology techniques in Zurich under the direction of Arnold Lang, then from 1900 to 1901 in Wurtzburg under the direction of Theodor Boveri. Interested in the structure and function of chromosomes, she trained from 1906 to 1907 at Columbia University in New York under the direction of Edmund Beecher Wilson ^{[ 3 ]} . She finished her doctorate in 1906, with works on the germ cells of the Enteroxenos Oestergreni sea mollusk (in) .

In 1911, Kristine Bonnevie became the first woman member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, and in 1912 the first woman professor of University of Norway. She taught zoology and directs the zoology laboratory at Royale Frederick University from 1912 to 1938. She also headed the Research Institute in genetics from 1916 ^{[ 3 ]} . In the 1930s, explorer Thor Heyerdahl was one of his students. From 1922 to 1933, Kristine Bonnevie participated in the work of the International Commission for Intellectual Cooperation (CICI) of the League of Nations, alongside Henri Bergson, Albert Einstein and Marie Curie ^{[ 4 ]} .

She created a place of study for young women in 1916. In 1922, she founded the Norwegian association of women graduates from universities (Norske Kvinnelige Akademikeres Landsforbund), which she directed from 1922 to 1925.

Kristine Bonnevie is an important member of the Left Liberal Party in Norway from 1909 to 1918 ^{[ 5 ]} . She was elected member of the City Council of Cristiania (current Oslo), where she signed from 1908 to 1919. In 1915, she signed as a deputy in the storting ^{[ 6 ]} .

In 1920, Kristine Bonnevie received the royal gold medal in gold, and in 1935 the Nansen Prize ^{[ 3 ]} . She is made knight of first ^re Class of the Order of Saint-Olaf in 1946.

The Biology building at the University of Oslo bears its name ^{[ 6 ]} .