Drummond, Jack

In 1920, Coward entered University College, London (UCL), to study biochemistry. Awarded a Beit Fellowship, she undertook research on vitamin A with Jack Drummond,50 a total of 22 publications being authored or co-authored from her work. She was elected Fellow of the Chemical Society in 1923, one of her nominators being Katherine Burke (see Chap. 3). Receiving her D.Sc. in biochemistry in 1924, she travelled to the United States on a Rockefeller Travelling Scholarship to continue her studies on vitamin A at the Department of Agricultural Chemistry of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. 

Young, F. G. (1954). Jack Cecil Drummond, 1891-1952. Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 9 99-129. 

Sir Jack Cecil Drummond was a distinguished British biochemist, noted for his scientific work on nutrition during the Second World War. In 1944, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society and knighted in the same year. After the war, he became Director of Research at the Boots Company in Nottingham. 

J. Henley, Spy theory revives French murder mystery. The Guardian, Monday 29 July, 2002 Boots chemist Sir Jack Drummond s death still a mystery, BBC Nottingham, 2011 http //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack Drummond. 

In 1938, British biochemist Jack Drummond unsealed canned mutton that Captain William Parry and his crew had taken on their 1824 search for the Northwest Passage. The canned mutton had been left behind when the crew abandoned their icebound ship. Drummond found that the salvaged food was still safe to eat. 

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