Hilde Proescholdt Mangold died in a tragic accident in 1942,when her kitchen's gasoline heater exploded.At the time she was 26 years old ,and her paper was just being published.Hers is one of the very few doctoral theses in biology that have directly resulted in the awarding of a Nobel Prize.From more information about Hilde Mangold and her times and the experiments that identified the organizer,see Hamburger 1984,1988,and Fassler and Sander 1996.