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]
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). [2]
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 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. [2]
Scientific Work
Personal Life
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.