Early Life
She was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, one of two children of businessman Henry Bishop and his wife Mabel. Her father was a keen entrepreneur: 'The family talk around the dinner table always concerned business.' She attended Barnard College in New York. In 1929, she graduated from Barnard College with a degree in Chemistry. She began taking undergraduate courses at Columbia University. In 1935, she worked at the College of Physicians and Surgeons with A.B. Cannon.
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