Ethel Luis

For the duration of the Second World War, a second woman was appointed to the chemistry teaching staff at Dundee Ethel Margaret Luis.37 Luis was bom on 28 August 1898, daughter of Theo. G. Lewis, Spinner and Manufacturer of Bloomfield, Dundee. She entered the Royal Holloway College in 1918, obtaining an honours B.Sc. (London) in 1921 while for the 

1923- 1925 period, Luis is listed as attending the Royal College of Science, Imperial College. 

Luis returned to Scotland to commence a Ph.D. (St. Andrews) with McKenzie, completing it in 1931. She continued research at Dundee, authoring and co-authoring nine papers between 1929 and 1941, and was appointed Demonstrator in 1938. In 1939, at the start of the Second World War, Luis was promoted to Assistant Lecturer to replace a male faculty who had departed on war duties, her employment being terminated with the end of the War in 1945. Luis died on 30 May 1998 at Broughty Ferry, aged 98 years. 

The novelty of women in chemistry prompted the comment The junior chemistry class is a study of blouses. 39 and also The fame of Marie Curie seems to have stimulated the female sex to pursue the study of chemistry. The advanced class is composed of four women students, and one solitary male. Changed days indeed. 40 

The absence of women from an alcoholic social was also noted  

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It was the organic chemist Alexander McKenzie,30 Professor of Chemistry, who attracted a significant number of women chemistry researchers. During his reign from 1914 to 1938, they included Isobel Smith (see below), Nellie Walker (see below), Mary Lesslie (see Chap. 4), Agnes Grant Mitchell, Ethel Luis (see below), and E. R. L. Gow. 

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