June Norma Olley
June Norma Olley (2 March 1924 – 29 July 2019) was a world-renowned seafood technologist and advocate for women's education. She was among the first to devise a scientific methodology for predictive microbiology. Early life Olley was born on 2 March 1924 in London in a bungalow at the back of Croydon aerodrome. Despite the expense, she was enrolled in boarding school by her mother who even inspected the standard of the school's laboratories. Her father, an early aviator and airline owner, "didn't believe in education for girls". Passionate about science from a young age, she was so devoted to her studies that her teachers blocked out the windows of the science library during the Blitz so she could continue to work there at night. Early career Olley completed a Bachelor of Science with Honours from University College London in 1944 . She then went on to do a PhD on lipid metabolism in 1950 at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She then joined the Torry Research Station near Aberdeen where she worked for 18 years. The station's research focused on marine fats, in particular fishmeal and she worked on turning excess herring into margarine. She also