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DATE: SUNDAY, July 4, 1993                   TAG: 9307040155
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-3   EDITION: METRO 
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ELIZABETH RAMSEY, EMBRYOLOGY AUTHORITY, DIES

Elizabeth M. Ramsey, whose discovery of a 2-week-old embryo during an autopsy began her career as an authority on human embryology, died Friday at a hospital in Washington. She was 87 and lived in Washington.

The cause was a stroke, said the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Ramsey worked for 36 years for Carnegie's embryology department on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore.

Dr. James Ebert, vice president of the National Academy of Science, called her "the world's leading student of the anatomy of the placenta."

She won the distinguished service award of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and was named to its hall of fame. In 1987 the Society for Gynecologic Investigation named her its distinguished scientist of the year. - The New York Times 


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