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Turner, E. E. (1953). Schools of chemistry in Great Britain and Ireland—XVII Bedford College, London. Journal of the Royal Institute of Chemistry 79 236—238. 

Anon. (June 1900). Bedford College London Magazine (42) 3. 

Whiteley, M., cited in Salt, C. and Bennett, L. (eds.) (1986). College Lives And Oral Panorama Celebrating the Past, Present and Future of the Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Royal Holloway and Bedford Colleges, London, p. 17. 

Rayner-Canham, M. F. and Rayner-Canham, G. W. (2006). The pioneering women chemists of Bedford College, London. Education in Chemistry 43(3) 77-79. 

W. Grellner, K. A. Schwetz, and A. Lipp, Fracture phenomena of sintered alphaSiC, in Proc. 7th Symp. on Special Ceramics, Bedford College, London, Dec. 1980, D. Taylor and P. Popper (Eds), Br. Ceram. Res. Assoc., Stoke on Trent 1981, pp. 27-36. 

The last rare-earth element, lutetium, was discovered by Urbain and independently by Auer von Welsbach. Work on rare earths was done by Richard Joseph Meyer (Berlin, 24 August 1865- ) and James Frederick Spencer (Liverpool 8 February 1881-31 December 1950), pupil of Ramsay and Abegg, professor in Bedford College, London, who also worked on magneto-chemistry. ... 

Jackson Pope at Cambridge, working on the synthesis of arsines as potential war gases. In Sydney Turner l gan a collaborative research effort with George Burrows (1888- 1950), who had been appointed to the staff at the University of Sydney in 1919. This work was published in six papers in the Journal of the Chemical Society (4) and included one paper on metal-arsine complexes(5). In 1921 Turner returned to England, where he later became Professor of Chemistry at Bedford College, London and a Fellow of the Royal Society. 

Eunice Annie Bucknell,81 the daughter of Daniel Bucknell, a carpenter and joiner of Regent s Park, London, was born on 29 December 1888. She attended NLCS and entered Bedford College in 1907. Bucknell completed a B.Sc. there, and by 1920 she was an Analytical and Research Chemist at the South Metropolitan Gas Company. 

University of Manchester student records University of Leeds student records Bedford College files of the Chemistry Department and Calendars University College, London. 

Another researcher in Ramsay s group at UCL was Katherine Alice Burke.10 Bom in Surrey about 1875, Burke obtained her B.Sc. (London) degree from studies at Bedford College and later Birkbeck College, a small college emphasising technical and vocational subjects. Upon completion of a B.Sc. in 1899, she transferred to UCL to work in Ramsay s laboratory under Frederick Donnan.11 Burke had two publications with Donnan and one with Edward Charles Cyril Baly.12 In addition, she... 

Overlapping with Browne, Mary Christina Thompson41 was appointed in 1938 as Demonstrator and Assistant Lecturer. Mary, the daughter of William Thompson, a London accounts clerk, was educated at James Allen s Girls School, Dulwich. She entered Bedford College in 1930, completing her B.Sc. in 1933, then continued to a Ph.D. in organic chemistry with Eustace Turner.42... 

Department. The first of these was Cecilie Mary French,59 who was born on 23 October 1915 in London. She was educated at Walthamstow Girls County High School and obtained her B.Sc. in chemistry from UCL in 1937. From 1938 to 1939, French was a Demonstrator in Chemistry at UCL and she also undertook research with Christopher Ingold60 and Cecil Wilson, leading to her Ph.D. in 1940. That year, she took a position as a Research Chemist with Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Ltd., but later the same year accepted an appointment as Demonstrator and Assistant Lecturer in Physical and Inorganic Chemistry at Bedford College. 

Calendars, London School of Medicine for Women and from Bedford College staff records. 

Letter, E. E. Turner to Miss Monkhouse, 19 December 1933, Bedford College Archives (held at Royal Holloway College). Dorothy Ellen Cook completed a B.Sc. at Bedford in 1933 and a Ph.D. in 1935. Her first position was Assistant to the Research Chemist at the Shellac Bureau, London then from 1936 to 1938, she was librarian at Imperial Chemical Industries. That year, she married Frank Stewart and ceased employment. Diana Lockhart obtained her B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees the same years as Cook. In 1936, she was a Demonstrator in the Biochemical Department at King s College, London. Then in 1952, it was reported that she was married to Mr. Huish, had school-age children, and was attempting to find work for interest. ... 

Though men held the senior ranks in chemistry at Bedford College, women played key roles as support staff. The first woman appointee occurred in 1898. This was Barbara Ally Tchaykovsky,13 who held the rank of Assistant Lecturer in Chemistry. Tchaykovsky was bom on 26 September 1875 in New York, the eldest child of Nicholas Tchaykovsky, a Russian university professor who had fled the Tsarist regime, the family moving to London shortly after her birth. Tchaykovsky was educated at NLCS and then completed a B.Sc. in chemistry at... 

Among the Bedford College chemistry alumnae was the forgotten pioneer of co-ordination chemistry, Edith Ellen Humphrey.31 Born in 1875, she attended NLCS, and it was there that Humphrey first took chemistry At the North London we... 

Rawson, S. (1899). Where London girls may study I. Bedford College. The Girl s Realm Annual 925-929. 

McDonald, M., cited in Bentley, L. (1991). Educating Women A Pictorial History of Bedford College, University of London, 1849-1985. RHC and Bedford New College, London, p. 40. 

By 1920, McKie had moved to University College, London (UCL), before being appointed Demonstrator at Bedford College in 1921, the same year that she was awarded a Ph.D. (London) in chemistry. She then moved to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, on a Research Fellowship for the 1925/1926 academic year. 

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