Clare de Brereton Evans

British chemist

Clare de Brereton Evans (C. de B. Evans, 1866–1935) was a scientist and academic who became the first woman to be awarded a doctorate in Chemistry (DSc).[1][2] She was a pioneer translator of Meister Eckhart's German works.[3][4]

Education and career

She was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and obtained a BSc (London) in 1889 while studying there. Following graduation, she undertook research at the Central Technical College where, in 1897, she became the first woman to be granted a DSc degree for her work on aromatic amines.[5]

In 1898 she became a lecturer at London School of Medicine for Women and also undertook research at UCL, where she published a number of papers, one of which describes her attempts to separate an unidentified element from iron residues.[6]

The Letter of 19

In 1904, she was one of nineteen signatories to a petition to the Chemical Society calling for the admission of women as Fellows.

References

  1. ^ Fontani, Marco; Costa, Mariagrazia; Orna, Mary Virginia (1 October 2014). The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199383351.
  2. ^ "Schools". Journal of Education and School World. 29: 730. December 1897.
  3. ^ Meister Eckhart by Franz Pfeiffer. [Volume 1] London: John M. Watkins, 1924. Translated by C. de B. Evans
  4. ^ The Works of Meister Eckhart, Doctor Ecstaticus. Volume 2. London: John M. Watkins, 1931/1952. Translated by C. de B. Evans
  5. ^ Rayner-Canham, Marelene F.; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey (2008). Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949. Imperial College Press. ISBN 9781860949876.
  6. ^ Rayner-Canham, Marlene F.; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey W. (2003). "Pounding on the doors: the fight for acceptance of British women chemists" (PDF). Bull. Hist. Chem. 28 (2): 110–120.
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The petitionThe signatories
  1. Lucy Boole
  2. Katherine Alice Burke
  3. Clare de Brereton Evans
  4. Elizabeth Eleanor Field
  5. Emily Fortey
  6. Ida Freund
  7. Mildred Gostling (Mrs Mills)
  8. Hilda Hartle
  9. Edith Humphrey
  10. Dorothy Marshall
  11. Margaret Seward (Mrs McKillop)
  12. Ida Smedley (Mrs Maclean)
  13. Alice Emily Smith
  14. Millicent Taylor
  15. M. Beatrice Thomas
  16. Grace Toynbee (Mrs Frankland)
  17. Martha Whiteley
  18. Sibyl Widdows
  19. Katharine Isabella Williams