Janet Plowe
American biologist
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Janet Quentin Plowe was a biologist credited for helping to discover the cell membrane.
Bornc. 1905
California
DiedUnknown
KnownforPioneer of Micro-injection
Biography
In 1931 she demonstrated that the cell membrane is physical, instead of an interface between two different liquids.[3] Janet Plowe was born in 1905 in California.[4]
Plowe, a student of William Seifriz,[3] was among the pioneers of micro-injection into plant cells.[5]
She discovered the elasticity and composition of several large organelles, and the cell membrane itself.[6]
