Ele Willoughby, PhD on Nostr: Happy birthday to self-taught trail-blazing Irish #marineBiologist Maude Delap (1866 ...

Happy birthday to self-taught trail-blazing Irish #marineBiologist Maude Delap (1866 – 1953), 1st to successfully breed jellyfish in captivity & document their full lifecycle. She is surrounded by blue #jellyfish (Cyanea lamarckii) life stages based on her diagrams.

Born 7th of 10 kids to Rev Alexander & Anna Jane Delap in County Donegal, her family to Valentia Island when she was 8. 🧵1/n

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