Kitty Ponse (5 September 1897 – 10 February 1982) was a Swiss zoologist and endocrinologist. She was a professor at the University of Geneva and received the Swiss Otto Naegeli Prize in 1961. Life and career Ponse was born in Sumatra, then part of the Dutch East Indies, to Dutch parents in 1897.[1][2] At the age of eight she and her family moved to Geneva, Switzerland, where she later studied science at the University of Geneva.[3] She completed a doctoral thesis at the University of Geneva in 1922 that focused on embryological development.[4] While the focus of her earlier research…