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{{short description|British chemist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Edith Hilda, Lady Ingold
| image = HildaIngold.jpg
| birth_name = Edith Hilda Usherwood
| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|7|21|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Catford]], [[London]], England
| death_date = 1988 (aged 89 or 90)
| death_place =
| death_cause =
| residence =
| citizenship nationality = British
| alma_mater = [[Imperial College London]]
| spouse = Sir [[Christopher Kelk Ingold]]
| children = 3
| field = [[Chemistry]]
| workplaces = [[Imperial College London]]
}}
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| doctoral_advisor = [[Martha Whiteley]]}}
 
'''Edith Hilda, Lady Ingold''' ({{nee}} Usherwood;
'''Dr Edith Hilda Ingold''' (21 May 1898 – 1988) was a British [[chemist]] based in Leeds and London. AsHer thecareer wifewas unfairly overshadowed by that of her [[Christopher Kelk Ingold|husband]]. her career was somewhat overshadowed by his work and sheShe failed to gain much public recognition, despite being an innovative chemist and partner to her husband in his work on inorganicorganic chemistry. <ref name="Brock2011">{{cite book|author=William Hodson Brock|title=The Case of the Poisonous Socks: Tales from Chemistry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FulDa-7VUTsC&pg=PA218|year=2011|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|isbn=978-1-84973-324-3|pages=218–}}</ref><ref name="BuchwaldWarwick2004">{{cite book|author1=Jed Z. Buchwald|author2=Andrew Warwick|title=Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1yqqhlIdCOoC&pg=PA347|year=2004|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-52424-7|pages=347–353}}</ref> She was known as '''Lady Ingold''' following her husband's knighthood.
 
== Early Lifelife ==
Known more commonly asEdith Hilda, sheUsherwood was born into a working -class family in Catford (south-east London). <ref name="Barrett2017">{{cite book|author=Anne Barrett|title=Women at Imperial College: Past, Present and Future|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OPutDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA89|date=24 February 2017|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-1-78634-264-5|pages=89–}}</ref>▼
 
▲Known more commonly as Hilda, she was born into a working class family in Catford (south-east London). <ref name="Barrett2017">{{cite book|author=Anne Barrett|title=Women at Imperial College: Past, Present and Future|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OPutDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA89|date=24 February 2017|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-1-78634-264-5|pages=89–}}</ref>
 
== Education ==
EdithShe attended a girls' Grammargrammar Schoolschool in Lewisham, followedand then byhad two years of private education in Horsham. She then moved to the [[North London Collegiate School]] after being awarded a ClothworkersClothworker's Scholarship.▼
 
As an undergraduate at [[Royal Holloway College]], Usherwood attained a BSc Hons in Chemistry (1916-1920) before completing her doctorate in 1923 at [[Imperial College London]]. As the doctoral degree was only introduced to British Universities in 1917<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/blogs/history-of-phd.pdf/@@download/file/History%20of%20PhD.pdf|title=100 Years of the PhD in the UK|website=Vitae.ac.uk|accessdate=9 April 2018}}</ref> she was one of the earliest students to qualify. Her PhD project was on [[tautomer]]s, isomers of molecules which differ only in the position of a labile hydrogen atom. Her doctoral supervisor was [[Martha Whiteley]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=5483|title=The dawn of organic reaction mechanism: the prequel.|last=Henry|first=Rzepa|date=13 November 2011|work=Henry Rzepa|access-date=1 November 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>
 
Her subsidiary subject was physics and this led to her research in [[physical organic chemistry]] and [[quantum mechanics]].<ref name="Barrett2017"/> Following completion of her PhD she went on to complete a [[Doctor of Science|DSc]].
 
She was president of the UCL Chemical and Physical society during the 1976-1977 academic year, one of the oldest and most prestigious societies at the university.{{cn|date=January 2023}}
▲Edith attended a girls Grammar School in Lewisham followed by two years of private education in Horsham. She then moved to the North London Collegiate School after being awarded a Clothworkers Scholarship.
 
== Personal Lifelife ==▼
As an undergraduate at Royal Holloway College she attained a BSc Hons in Chemistry before becoming a postgraduate at Imperial College London. Her subsidiary subject was physics and this lead to her research in physical organic chemistry and quantum mechanics. <ref name="Barrett2017">{{cite book|author=Anne Barrett|title=Women at Imperial College: Past, Present and Future|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OPutDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA89|date=24 February 2017|publisher=World Scientific|isbn=978-1-78634-264-5|pages=89–}}</ref>
She married fellow Chemistry student [[Christopher Kelk Ingold]] in 1923 and went on to have three children. They had two daughters and a son, the chemist [[Keith Usherwood Ingold|Keith Ingold]].<ref>{{cite book | author = Nye, Mary Jo | title = From Chemical Philosophy to Theoretical Chemistry | year = 1994 | publisher = University of California Press | pages = 197–198 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=z39bhlMAHMYC&q=classic+chemistry+ingold&pg=PA211 | isbn = 978-0-520-08210-6}}</ref>
 
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▲== Personal Life ==
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[[Category:People educated at North London Collegiate School]]
[[Category:1898 births]]
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[[Category:People from Catford]]
[[Category:Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London]]
[[Category:Alumni of Imperial College London]]
[[Category:Academics of Imperial College London]]
[[Category:Wives of knights]]
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