Audrey Jane Gibson was a British-American microbiologist and biochemist who worked in the field of photosynthetic bacteria. She discovered that selenium is required by the metabolism of coliform bacteria and described a new species of sulphur bacterium in the genus Chloroherpeton. She became a Professor at Cornell University in 1979 and was editor of the scientific journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology.
- Occupation
- biochemist, university teacher
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- 1924
- Died
- 2008
