Bodil Jerslev Lund

Born on 30 April 1919 in Fjerritslev in the north of Jutland, Bodil Jerslev was the daughter of the pharmacist Aage Holger Christian Jens Johan Jerslev (1884–1943) and his wife Ella née Friis-Sørensen (1892–1958). After receiving her school leaving certificate from Aalborg Cathedral School in 1936, she earned a master's degree from the Danish Pharmaceutical College in 1941.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://kvindebiografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Bodil_Jerslev_Lund|title=Bodil Jerslev Lund In December 1948, she married the civil engineer Frederik Christian Freuchen Oxenbøll Lund (1921–1972), with whom she had two children: Ulla (1950) and Lise (1954). ==Career==

After leaving school, Jerslev first assisted her father by working in his pharmacy. On graduating, she spent half a year working in Rigshospitalet's pharmacy. In 1942, she was engaged as a scientific assistant in the organic chemistry laboratory at the Pharmaceutical College. After the war, in 1948 she spent a period at Oxford University carrying our research on X-ray crystallography under Dorothy Hodgkin. Later in the year, she moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where she worked as a researcher at Princeton University under Hugh S. Taylor. While in the United States, she married Christian Lund. As a result of her research, the college was able to acquire modern X-ray equipment. Bodil Jerslev Lund died in Hellerup on 21 December 2005, aged 86.{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Bodil_Jerslev_Lund|title=Bodil Jerslev Lund ==Honours and awards==

Lund was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters in 1971 and to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1981. In 1982, she received the Danish Pharmaceutical College's gold medal. She was honoured as a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog in 1965 and was promoted to Knight of the First Order in 1975. ==References==