Katherine Burke

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 

Perhaps learning from Ramsay of the 1904 petition for the admission of women to the Chemical Society, Burke was a cosigner of that, and of the 1909 letter to Chemical News (see Chap. 2). In 1906, she was appointed as Assistant in the Department of Chemistry, being promoted to Assistant Lecturer in 1921. Donnan noted in her obituary  

In 1906 she was appointed a member of the Chemical Staff at University College, and from that time until her death on July 6th, 1924, she continued her teaching work, having charge of the practical laboratory work for students of the Intermediate Science class, and giving courses of lectures to more advanced students on the chemical aspects of radioactive transformations.100  

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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. 

Katherine A. Burke (P) [3] Assistant, Chemistry, University College, London... 

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