Susan Finnegan
Susan Finnegan FLS | |
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| Born | 20 October 1903 Belfast |
| Died | 20 June 1995 (aged 91) |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Belfast (BSc) Newnham College, Cambridge (PhD) |
| Known for | Work on Acari, spiders and scorpions |
| Spouse | Walter Campbell Smith (m. 1936; died 1988) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Zoology |
| Institutions | British Museum (Natural History) |
| Thesis | Report on the Brachyura collected by the S.Y. 'St George' on the east and west coasts of Central America (PhD) (1930) |
Susan Finnegan (20 October 1903 – 20 June 1995) was a British zoologist, who specialised in the study of mites and ticks. She was the first woman appointed to a scientific post at the Natural History Museum, London, in 1927, and was the first woman to describe and name a new genus of scorpion, Apistobuthus. Two species of scorpion have been named in her honour. Finnegan was required to resign her post at the Natural History Museum in 1936, in order to marry her fellow museum worker Walter Campbell Smith.