Cambridge Natural Sciences Tripos

Mary Johnson,45 a graduate of Newnham, became one of the first women researchers in the Cambridge Chemistry Laboratories. Born on 14 January 1895, Johnson was educated at Bede College School, Sunderland. She had actually wanted to read mathematics at Newnham when she entered in 1913, but inadequate preparation at school resulted in a change of plans and she took chemistry instead. When she completed the Part II of the Natural Science Tripos in 1917, she placed above all of the men in her year. 

This book became one of the important texts of the mid-century, being recommended to those taking the newly approved courses of the Natural Science School at Oxford and of the Natural Sciences Tripos at Cambridge in the 1850s. ... 

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