WOMEN AS CHEMISTS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 568, 24 July 1909, Page 11

WOMEN AS CHEMISTS.

One- of tho features of the seventh International ~ Congress of Applied ' Chemistry (says a London Avriter to an. Australian paper), is the'; number., of 'woinen"" who are .full members, qualified by training and work to rank as ("chemists" in :,tho scientific sense. It ,is interesting, too, to note cases Where husband and wife are both chemists.' . Mrs. Francis Wyatt, of ..Now.York, one of the delegates, has an equally .distinguished chemist husband, just as-.Madame Curie,. the discoverer-of' radium, married a chemist. . . '■

Three clover women appeared •'before the congress; on ■ Monday-; Miss F. M. ,J. Mickle•ttavaite, .who has been assisting Dr." Morean in his-.metallurgical Researches at the -Bpyal- Col-v lege of Science; Miss^Eva| Mameli, who -was highly complimented by Dr. Wiley upon' her researches ..in; connection with the'assimilation of - nitrogen by--'plants';' and Miss Hantiessier, who" read Van original pager inr.the : .organio chemistfy . section. . Miss, Manriessier,,delegates from Italy, : are assistant professors at the University:of Padiia. r _... ,Other .'.women ' chemists. from ' the Continent • at, the congress included • Dr. E. : Kowalovsky, professor of chemistry at. tho Medical Sohool, for. - Women, St. Petersburg;. Madame Clara •Roll, of Moscow; Madame . Mattiien, of Paris; Fraulem Clara' Plohn, from Charlottenbnrg; Snekur. '-of Breslan; and. Fraulein Louise. Strnhmer, /of Vienna. • . University College contributes a number of women to the icongtess,. including' Miss Homfray, _who. has. dona; important. - research work- in: .inorganip oholnistry'; Miss Burke., an'-assistant professor; Miss P. Chick, Miss Cfulzar, and Miss Ma'rsflen',:.'; all •-Bachelors of Science.,, ; Ono .of the demonstrators in organic. qheniistry at the Poj'al Collego' of Science; Dr. Afartha Annie Whitelcy, is a member, too.