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What’s New: July 2023
This month’s update adds the lives of eleven women mainly active in science and literature: Sarah Frances Alleyne; Alice Blanche Balfour; Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne; Edith Ellen Humphrey; Nora Lang; Ethel Vaughan-Sawyer; Jane Sinnett; Maria La Touche; Catharine Weed Ward; Josephine Mary Ward; Doreen Wallace. Read the introduction here.
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Humphrey, Edith Ellen (1875–1978), chemist
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The chemist Edith Ellen Humphrey was brought up by Victorian parents who attached as much importance to the education of their daughters as of their sons. After graduating from London University, she gained a PhD at the University of Zürich in the laboratory of the future Nobel prize winner Alfred Werner. She had a career in Britain as chief research scientist to Sanderson, the wallpaper manufacturers.
