Winifred Grace Wright
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Winifred Grace Wright, née Winifred Grace Hurst (6 June 1891
Imperial College, London, and partly responsible for the development of mustard gas used during World War I.[2]
Education
She was educated at the
M.Sc.
First World War
In 1918 she joined the Anti-Gas Department of the Ministry of Munitions under Edward Harrison, who died as a result of his experiments.[3]
Battersea Polytechnic and marriage
For the next 30 years from 1919 to 1949 she worked in the Chemistry Department of
Battersea Polytechnic
. During that period she married John Wright, a consultant on high-tension power lines, and raised a family of 3 daughters.
Migration to South Africa and interest in plants
In 1949 she emigrated to
Ph.D.
in 1954.
References
- 'Chemistry Was Their Life - Pioneer British Women Chemists, 1880–1949' - Marelene Rayner-Canham, Geoff Rayner-Canham,Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada (Imperial College Press, 2008)
- 'The Wild Flowers of Southern Africa - Natal - A Rambler's Pocket Guide' - Dr. Winifred G. Wright (Nelson, 1963)
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