:Clare de Brereton Evans
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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).{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Te1jBAAAQBAJ&q=Clare+de+Brereton+Evans&pg=PA106|title=The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side|last1=Fontani|first1=Marco|last2=Costa|first2=Mariagrazia|last3=Orna|first3=Mary Virginia|date=2014-10-01|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199383351|language=en}}{{cite journal|date=December 1897|title=Schools|journal=Journal of Education and School World|volume=29|page=730|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Pgs-AQAAMAAJ&q=Clare+de+Brereton+Evans&pg=PA730}} She was a pioneer translator of Meister Eckhart's German works.Meister Eckhart by Franz Pfeiffer. [Volume 1] London: John M. Watkins, 1924. Translated by C. de B. EvansThe Works of Meister Eckhart, Doctor Ecstaticus. Volume 2. London: John M. Watkins, 1931/1952. Translated by C. de B. Evans
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.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yD_XlVSwJbcC&q=Clare+de+Brereton+Evans&pg=PA159|title=Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949|last1=Rayner-Canham|first1=Marelene F.|last2=Rayner-Canham|first2=Geoffrey|date=2008|publisher=Imperial College Press|isbn=9781860949876|language=en}}
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.{{Cite journal|last1=Rayner-Canham|first1=Marlene F.|last2=Rayner-Canham|first2=Geoffrey W.|date=2003|title=Pounding on the doors: the fight for acceptance of British women chemists|url=http://www.scs.illinois.edu/~mainzv/HIST/bulletin_open_access/v28-2/v28-2%20p110-119.pdf|journal=Bull. Hist. Chem.|volume=28 |issue=2|pages=110–120}}
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.
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Category:19th-century British chemists
Category:19th-century British women scientists