User:Heyverano/Harriette Chick
Dame Harriette Chick,
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Biography
Early years and education
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She was born in London, England as the fifth child of seven daughters and four sons of Samuel Chick and Emma Hooley, a Methodist family.
Death
She never married and died in
Work
In 1909 Chick was a cosignatory to a letter to The Times newspaper from a group of women graduates of the University of London calling for them to be allowed to vote for the Member of Parliament returned by their university.[5] In 1913 she was one of the first three women to be admitted to the Biochemical Society following its renaming and change of policy on the admission of women.[6]
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Early doctorate research in Vienna and Munich
During the years 1898–1901 an award from the
Lister Institute research
In 1905, Chick was the first woman with a position at the Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine in London. She initially worked with Lister Institute director Charles James Martin in his laboratory under the title Assistant on a range of biological projects and ultimately stayed with the institute as an honorary staff member for 25 years thereafter.
Her first studies was to develop a more reliable method of measuring the relative biological potency of different disinfectants.[4] She is known for having formulated Chick's Law in 1908, giving the relationship between the kill efficiency of organisms and contact time with a disinfectant.[9][10] Chick's Law was later modified by Dr. H.E. Watson in 1908 to include the coefficient of specific lethality. The Chick-Watson Equation is still used. A new and, at the time, more realistic test for the effectiveness of disinfectants, the Chick-Martin test, was also devised and named for the two collaborators (see Phenol coefficient).
She then continued her research to investigate the coagulation of serum globulins by heat and chemicals. In the same lab, she discovered that the process of
She also worked with Martin on a project related to the bubonic plague in India and the readiness that the rat fleas bites would bit humans. During this project, Martin and Chick, along with six others, volunteered to be bitten by a hungry rat flea for the studies.[4]
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Work at Lister Institute and transition to nutritional studies
In 1915, she briefly went to the Lister Institute in
Chick was appointed Head of a new nutrition section at the Lister Institute and continued with her research on rickets and, additionally, pellagra. The department was relocated to the Cambridge house of the Lister director CJ Martin during the Second World War.
Honors and distinctions
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While studying at University College London, Chick won awards for botany- the advanced-class prize in 1894–1895 and the senior-class Gold Medal in 1896.[8]
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She served as secretary of the
Select publications
References
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- ^ ISBN 0-8108-3287-9.
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- ^ ISSN 0022-3166.
- ^ L. Garrett Anderson, M. D., B.S., Marian Busk, B. S., Hon. Treasurer., & E. Honor Bone, M. D., B.S Harriette Chick, D.Sc. Jessie W. Scott. M.A. Hon. Secretaries. (16 November 1909). Women Graduates and the Suffrage. The Times, p. 12. London, England.
- ^ "Women in the Biochemical Society". Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick. 10 Nov 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
- ^ The Crusade Against Consumption. The Times, 13 January 1902 p6, London, England
- ^ ISBN 1-57607-090-5.
- ^ Chick's Law Archived 21 July 2015 at the Wayback Machine
- PMC 2540130.
- PMID 16993156.
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- ^ A history of the UK Bio Products Laboratory (1954-2014), online publication accessed 25 August 2019
- ^ "Vitamin Discussion". Retrieved 12 November 2010.[dead link]
- ^ Information, Reed Business (28 July 1977). "New Scientist".
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