Mrs. Julia Tiffany Weld, who made important contributions to medical research although she had no scientific degree, died Thursday at her home here. Her age was 86.
Mrs. Weld, the widow of Francis Minto Weld, worked in medical research throughout her adult life, first in the Presbyterian Hospital and later at Cornell University Medical College, where she held a faculty appointment as a research assistant. She retired two years ago.
At the turn of the century her father, Louis Comfort Tiffany, art director of the Tiffany studios, did not think it proper for a young woman with her family background to have a college education, and she was not permitted to continue working for a degree at Barnard College.
Nevertheless, she pursued an intensive interest in medicine. After helping in the laboratory of Dr. Philip H. Hiss, professor of bacteriology at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, she took time off to get married and have two children. Her first marriage, to the late Gurdon Saltonstall Parker, ended in divorce.
Returning to Physicians and Surgeons in 1914, she worked with Dr. Hans Zinnser and three years later collaborated with him in the first of the more than 50 scientific papers she wrote alone or with other investigators.
Worked on Ragweed
Most of her work dealt with the bacterium staphylococcus, but in earlier work she showed that ragweed pollen produced a severe allergic response in white rats.
In 1928 she moved to the department of pathology at Physicians and Surgeons, and two years later was married to Mr. Weld. In 1955, she transferred her activities to Cornell, where she did research in bacteriology and immunology as well as in protozoology. Since then she continued publishing papers alone and collaboratively, and did important research in staphylococcus and diseases of the eye.
Mrs. Weld made substantial gifts to Columbia University's department of medicine and other medical institutions.
Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. Comfort Parker O'Connor of Hobe Sound, Fla., and Mrs. Mary Seabury Parker Weaver of Washington; two sisters, Mrs. Comfort Tiffany Gilder of New York and Mrs. Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham of London, and four grandchildren.
Mrs. Weld, the widow of Francis Minto Weld, worked in medical research throughout her adult life, first in the Presbyterian Hospital and later at Cornell University Medical College, where she held a faculty appointment as a research assistant. She retired two years ago.
At the turn of the century her father, Louis Comfort Tiffany, art director of the Tiffany studios, did not think it proper for a young woman with her family background to have a college education, and she was not permitted to continue working for a degree at Barnard College.
Nevertheless, she pursued an intensive interest in medicine. After helping in the laboratory of Dr. Philip H. Hiss, professor of bacteriology at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, she took time off to get married and have two children. Her first marriage, to the late Gurdon Saltonstall Parker, ended in divorce.
Returning to Physicians and Surgeons in 1914, she worked with Dr. Hans Zinnser and three years later collaborated with him in the first of the more than 50 scientific papers she wrote alone or with other investigators.
Worked on Ragweed
Most of her work dealt with the bacterium staphylococcus, but in earlier work she showed that ragweed pollen produced a severe allergic response in white rats.
In 1928 she moved to the department of pathology at Physicians and Surgeons, and two years later was married to Mr. Weld. In 1955, she transferred her activities to Cornell, where she did research in bacteriology and immunology as well as in protozoology. Since then she continued publishing papers alone and collaboratively, and did important research in staphylococcus and diseases of the eye.
Mrs. Weld made substantial gifts to Columbia University's department of medicine and other medical institutions.
Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. Comfort Parker O'Connor of Hobe Sound, Fla., and Mrs. Mary Seabury Parker Weaver of Washington; two sisters, Mrs. Comfort Tiffany Gilder of New York and Mrs. Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham of London, and four grandchildren.
Mrs. Julia Tiffany Weld, who made important contributions to medical research although she had no scientific degree, died Thursday at her home here. Her age was 86.
Mrs. Weld, the widow of Francis Minto Weld, worked in medical research throughout her adult life, first in the Presbyterian Hospital and later at Cornell University Medical College, where she held a faculty appointment as a research assistant. She retired two years ago.
At the turn of the century her father, Louis Comfort Tiffany, art director of the Tiffany studios, did not think it proper for a young woman with her family background to have a college education, and she was not permitted to continue working for a degree at Barnard College.
Nevertheless, she pursued an intensive interest in medicine. After helping in the laboratory of Dr. Philip H. Hiss, professor of bacteriology at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, she took time off to get married and have two children. Her first marriage, to the late Gurdon Saltonstall Parker, ended in divorce.
Returning to Physicians and Surgeons in 1914, she worked with Dr. Hans Zinnser and three years later collaborated with him in the first of the more than 50 scientific papers she wrote alone or with other investigators.
Worked on Ragweed
Most of her work dealt with the bacterium staphylococcus, but in earlier work she showed that ragweed pollen produced a severe allergic response in white rats.
In 1928 she moved to the department of pathology at Physicians and Surgeons, and two years later was married to Mr. Weld. In 1955, she transferred her activities to Cornell, where she did research in bacteriology and immunology as well as in protozoology. Since then she continued publishing papers alone and collaboratively, and did important research in staphylococcus and diseases of the eye.
Mrs. Weld made substantial gifts to Columbia University's department of medicine and other medical institutions.
Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. Comfort Parker O'Connor of Hobe Sound, Fla., and Mrs. Mary Seabury Parker Weaver of Washington; two sisters, Mrs. Comfort Tiffany Gilder of New York and Mrs. Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham of London, and four grandchildren.
Mrs. Weld, the widow of Francis Minto Weld, worked in medical research throughout her adult life, first in the Presbyterian Hospital and later at Cornell University Medical College, where she held a faculty appointment as a research assistant. She retired two years ago.
At the turn of the century her father, Louis Comfort Tiffany, art director of the Tiffany studios, did not think it proper for a young woman with her family background to have a college education, and she was not permitted to continue working for a degree at Barnard College.
Nevertheless, she pursued an intensive interest in medicine. After helping in the laboratory of Dr. Philip H. Hiss, professor of bacteriology at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, she took time off to get married and have two children. Her first marriage, to the late Gurdon Saltonstall Parker, ended in divorce.
Returning to Physicians and Surgeons in 1914, she worked with Dr. Hans Zinnser and three years later collaborated with him in the first of the more than 50 scientific papers she wrote alone or with other investigators.
Worked on Ragweed
Most of her work dealt with the bacterium staphylococcus, but in earlier work she showed that ragweed pollen produced a severe allergic response in white rats.
In 1928 she moved to the department of pathology at Physicians and Surgeons, and two years later was married to Mr. Weld. In 1955, she transferred her activities to Cornell, where she did research in bacteriology and immunology as well as in protozoology. Since then she continued publishing papers alone and collaboratively, and did important research in staphylococcus and diseases of the eye.
Mrs. Weld made substantial gifts to Columbia University's department of medicine and other medical institutions.
Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. Comfort Parker O'Connor of Hobe Sound, Fla., and Mrs. Mary Seabury Parker Weaver of Washington; two sisters, Mrs. Comfort Tiffany Gilder of New York and Mrs. Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham of London, and four grandchildren.
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