Wilson-Smith Mrs. Farmer

From 1921 until 1925, Wilson-Smith was a Demonstrator in Chemistry at the London School of Medicine for Women, though she spent the year 1922/1923 as a research student in the organic chemistry department of Imperial College, another of the research students being Ernest Farmer.30 In 1925, she 

The last loss to be recorded is of Miss M. J. Wilson-Smith (now Mrs Farmer) for two years Assistant Lecturer and Demonstrator in the Chemistry Department. Shortly after the end of term we heard of her engagement to a fellow-scientist at Imperial College. Her marriage followed within a few weeks. Those who remember her record for industry will note, perhaps only with faint surprise, that, according to Rumour, 

Mrs Farmer has for the last two months done not a stroke of scientific work.31 

According to the obituarist of Farmer, Wilson-Smith worked with Farmer after marriage During this period, in 1930, he married Marjorie Wilson-Smith, she was one of his research students and continued for many years to assist him with his researches. 30 However, none of Farmer s later publications list Wilson-Smith as a co-author. We will never know how many more women chemists continued to work upon marriage, but without acknowledgement or recognition. Helena Pycior, Nancy Slack, and Pnina Abir-Am have named such women the invisible assistants.32 

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