The couple were both famous embryologists throughout the Western World and later were to become the only married couple to be elected members of Britain's prestigious Royal Society, apart from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert!
倆人皆是享譽歐美的胚胎生化學家，後來又同時當選英國最高科學組織皇家學會會員，成為學會十七世紀成立以來，繼維多利亞女王與王夫艾伯特之後唯一同時入選的夫妻檔。