Dr Edith Hilda Ingold (21 May 1898 – 1988) was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. As the wife of Christopher Kelk Ingold her career was somewhat overshadowed by his work and she failed to gain much public recognition, despite being an innovative chemist and partner to her husband in his work on inorganic chemistry.[1][2] She was known as Lady Ingold following her husband's knighthood.
Edith Hilda Ingold | |
|---|---|
| Born | Edith Hilda Usherwood 21 July 1898 |
| Died | 1988 |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Spouse | Christopher Kelk Ingold |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
Early life
Known more commonly as Hilda, she was born into a working-class family in Catford (south-east London).[3]
Education
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.
As an undergraduate at Royal Holloway College she attained a BSc Hons in Chemistry before completing her doctorate in 1923 at Imperial College London. As the doctoral degree was only introduced to British Universities in 1917[4] she was one of the earliest students to benefit from this training program. Her PHd project was on tautomers, isomers of molecules which differ only in the position of a labile hydrogen atom.[5]
Her subsidiary subject was physics and this lead to her research in physical organic chemistry and quantum mechanics.[3]
Scientific Work
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Personal life
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References
- ^ William Hodson Brock (2011). The Case of the Poisonous Socks: Tales from Chemistry. Royal Society of Chemistry. pp. 218–. ISBN 978-1-84973-324-3.
- ^ Jed Z. Buchwald; Andrew Warwick (2004). Histories of the Electron: The Birth of Microphysics. MIT Press. pp. 347–353. ISBN 978-0-262-52424-7.
- ^ a b Anne Barrett (24 February 2017). Women at Imperial College: Past, Present and Future. World Scientific. pp. 89–. ISBN 978-1-78634-264-5.
- ^ https://www.vitae.ac.uk/vitae-publications/blogs/history-of-phd.pdf/@@download/file/History%20of%20PhD.pdf
- ^ http://www.ch.imperial.ac.uk/rzepa/blog/?p=5483