British women chemists and the First World War

Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.

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Title

British women chemists and the First World War

Author(s)

Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.

Contributor(s)

Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey W.

Issue Date

1999-03-15

Keyword(s)

• History
• Chemistry
• Women Chemist History United Kingdom

Abstract

The First World War provided an opportunity for women chemists because of the large demand for explosives, synthetic dyes, poison gas and pharmaceuticals. The Allied nations have been importing drugs and pharmaceuticals mostly from Germany before the war. With Germany against them, the Allied countries had to produce their own drugs and other fine chems. It was then that a committee of the UK Royal Society was established to organize the prodn. of these chems. A substantial no. of chemists were women which included Martha Whiteley who headed the research group at the Imperial College of Science, London University. However, the end of the war cause the termination of the employment of most of these women chemists.

Publisher

Division of the History of Chemistry

ISSN

1053-4385

Type of Resource

text

Genre of Resource

article

Language

eng

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/126136

DOI

https://doi.org/10.70359/bhc1999n23p020

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Copyright 1999 Division of the History of Chemistry

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