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Born in Germany , she fled to Scotland because of Anti-Semitism . She became well-known after 1942 when she, with A. J. Clark and J. M. Robson , discovered that Mustard Gas could cause Mutation s in Fruit Flies . This, and her later work, founded the science of Mutagenesis .

In 1947 , she published a book of Fairy Stories titled '' Adventures With Rosalind '' under the pen-name of Charlotte Austen.