Wikipedia:GLAM/Wellcome/Events and Workshops/RSChem
![]() | Royal Society of Chemistry Women in Science Wikithon in a nutshell:
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About the event
[edit]Wellcome Library, Imperial College and the Royal Society of Chemistry are joining forces to host a Women in Science Wikithon. Join us to celebrate the women in science that deserve a more prominent place in the online historical record. You'll hear inspirational talks, then develop your digital skills and learn how to edit Wikipedia in order to harness the power of the web to share your knowledge.
Complete beginners and experienced editors are both welcome to attend - we'll provide training for anyone new to editing. If you’ve spotted an article that needs improving, bring along your queries and we’ll see what we can do to help!
How do I prepare?
[edit]- Sign up for the event!
- Create a Wikipedia account (look at the top right of this page for the link). You don't need to do anything else, but it'll speed things up on the day if you've already signed up for an account.
- Learn about editing if you like: see Visual Editor user guide for more information.
- Think about what you would like to edit about - you can even prepare some materials to bring with you on the day (to help with verifiability).
- Check out the notability guidelines and what topics can be written about on Wikipedia.
- Think about whether you have any conflicts of interest.
- Take a look at the list of Women Climate Researchers or Wikiproject Women Scientists to help you find a person for whom you'd like to create/improve a page - or search for another scientist to see if their page needs to be added/improved!
- Bring along a laptop and enjoy the day!
Participants
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Participating wiki-editors can add their names here...
Articles edited and created
[edit]- Agnes Pockels (sandbox)
- Draft:Caroline Pellew
- Draft:Cecilie French
- Crystallography
- Dorothy Marshall
- Elizabeth A.H. Hall
- Draft:Emily Lloyd (chemist)
- Evelyn Hickmans
- Helen Megaw
- Draft:Isabel Hadfield
- Judith Howard
- Kathleen Lonsdale
- Kim Cobb
- List of chemists
- Lorelly Wilson
- Draft:Margaret Seward
- Marika Holland (sandbox)
- Draft:Mary Andross
- Draft:Mary Corner
- Sara Jane Rhoades (sandbox)
- Shu Jie Lam
Useful links
[edit]Here are some useful links to help you with your editing:
- All sorts of helpful guides and online resources can be found on the Wellcome Library Wikimedian in Residence Project Page.
- You can find out more about the Royal Society of Chemistry on their website and on the Wikipedia page for the society.
- You can add pictures for use on Wiki-pages and beyond on Wikimedia Commons. Your Wikipedia account will work on Commons too - as well as all the other Wiki-projects and different language versions of Wikipedia.
- If you're interested in joining a community of editors passionate about women in science, take a look at Wikiproject Women Scientists. You can also view useful resources on adding pages for women at Wikiproject Women in Red, plus find links to news articles and view worklists highlighting articles/topics that are the current focus of improvement.
Here are some ways to keep track of your edits:
- You can view all your contributions to Wikipedia by clicking "Contributions" (in the top right of this page).
- The Pageviews tool is a great way of measuring how many people are looking at the page you created/edited. You can even export the data if you'd like it for reports, etc.
Pages to create/improve
[edit]Fellows & Honourary Fellows of the RSC
[edit]As Claire mentioned in her talk, there's lots of information on people's scientific research that should be included in women's Wikipedia pages (e.g. Princess Chulabhorn), but isn't yet! You can find a list of Honourary Fellows here and there's a list of Fellows here.
Climate change researchers
[edit]There is a list of women working in the field of climate change - any name with a little external link square beside it probably indicates a person who doesn't have a Wikipedia page yet!
"Fearless Pioneers"
[edit]Surprisingly, the pages for a number of the women in Rachel Ignotofsky's excellent book Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers who Changed the World are quite sparse. It would be great if some of these could be improved to help those looking for more information after reading:
- Edith Clarke
- Mamie Phipps Clark
- Katia and Maurice Krafft
- Esther Lederberg
- Tessy Thomas
- Nettie Stevens
- Florence Bascom
- Mary Agnes Chase
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
- Annie Easley
- Patricia Bath
- May-Britt Moser
- Edith M. Flanigen
- Alice Ball
- Jane C. Wright
- Gertrude B. Elion
- Wang Zhenyi (astronomer)
- Sau Lan Wu
- Elizabeth Blackwell (needs an infobox)
Women chemists past and present
[edit]This table contains notable women chemists from history (mostly found in the Chemistry Was Their Life book if you need a source to get you started!) and from the present day (most of whom are winners of big prizes or Fellows of societies, for whom you can find university websites and news stories about their award/fellowship).
Historic or modern? | Name | Field | Keywords | Notability | Claimed by... |
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M | Carol V. Robinson | Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry | Oxford, Cambridge, proteins | First woman appointed chemistry professor at the University of Oxford. Page exists but very brief on her actual work. | |
H | Draft:Isabel Hadfield | Analytical chemistry | WWI, NPL, Aeronautics Microchemicals | Development of microanalytical measurements | |
H | Draft:Emily Lloyd (chemist) | Analytical chemistry | Aberystwyth, education, University of Birmingham | First woman associate at the Royal Institute of Chemistry | |
H | Draft:Margaret Seward | Chemical reactions | Natural Science, Somerville, nutrition | First Oxford woman student to be entered for honour school of Mathematics, founding lecturer of Royal Holloway College, MBE | |
H | Draft:Cecilie French | Magnetochemistry | UCL, ICI, Bedford College, Queen Mary College | Senior Lecturer at QMC, extensive research into electrochemistry of nonaqueous solvents, synthesised novel boron compounds, Invited to give the Marie Curie Lecture at Penn. State. | |
H | Draft:Mary Corner | Microanalysis | Fabric (cotton & leather) industry research | Head of the Microanalytical Section of the Chemical Research Laboratory | |
H | Martha Annie Whiteley | Research chemistry | Editor of the Dictionary of Applied Chemistry (3rd Edition), mustard gas | President of the Imperial College Women Students' Association, OBE | |
H | Frances Micklethwait | Research chemistry | Mustard gas, Boots, Principal at Swanley Horticultural College | Prolific author of chemistry publications, MBE | |
H | Sibyl Widdows | Chemistry education | Education, Royal Holloway College | Head of the Chemistry Department at London School of Medicine for Women | |
H | Draft:May Badger | Inorganic analysis | Glass, pottery and coal | Head of the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratories at the University of Manchester | |
H | May Sybil Leslie | Industrial chemistry | Nitric acid, explosives, A Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Leeds | Author of key text on kinetics of the iodination of acetone, Chemist in Charge of Laboratory at His Majesty's Factory in Litherland | |
H | Evelyn Hickmans | Blood chemistry | Phenylketonuria, Horst Bickel, University of Birmingham, University of Toronto | Awarded the John Scott Medal, Head of Children's Diseases Department in the Children's Hospital, Birmingham. | |
H | Clara Millicent Taylor | Organic chemistry | β-eucaine, University of Bristol | One of the first women admitted to the Chemical Society, Head of Science at Cheltenham Ladies' College | |
H | Delia Simpson | Spectroscopy | Cambridge Chemistry Laboratories, energy fuels, fluorescence and infrared. | Director of Studies in Natural Sciences, Newnham | |
H | Draft:Soshelia Ram | Analytical chemistry | Lady Hardinge Medical College for Women, University of Delhi, University of Cambridge | Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry | |
H | Rosemary Murray | Already quite a full page, but needs some citations, etc. | |||
H | Catherine Steele | Biochemistry | Page exists though very short, might be tricky to find information to expand it. | ||
H | Ishbel Campbell | Organometallic compounds | University of Southampton, chemical warfare, St Andrews University | One of the first women to receive a Commonwealth Fellowship, key figure in organometallic compounds of groups V and VI with numerous publications. | |
H | Christina Miller | Analytical chemistry | Diffusion, Carnegie Research Fellowship, tetraphosphorus hexaoxide. | Key studies in phosphorous and luminescence, Keith Prize from the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Director of the Inorganic Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh | |
H | Elizabeth Kempson | Biochemistry | University of Edinburgh, carbohydrates, polysaccharide chemistry, | Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, issue of Carbohydrate Research journal dedicated to her | |
H | Ruth Pirret | Radiochemistry | Ellen Gleditsch, Frederick Soddy, University of Manchester, metal corrosion | First woman graduate in Science from the University of Glasgow, discovery of uranium isotopes | |
H | Draft:Mary Andross | Food chemistry | Nutritional value of food, vitamin C, Society for Chemical Industry | Fellow of the Institute of Food Science Technology, creator of first courses for training dieticians | |
H | Edith Willcock | Food chemistry | Iodoform, radiation, tryptophan (& Frederick Gowland Hopkins) | First studies to show the damaging effects of exposure to radioactive elements, work on vitamins, popular author | |
H | Muriel Wheldale Onslow | Biochemistry | Pigments, plant breeding, genetics, artist, University of Cambridge | Landmark work on pigmentation and genetics, one of the first three women elected to the Biochemical Club, Fellowship from the British Federation of University Women | |
H | Rose Scott-Moncrieff | Biochemistry | Page exists but is quite short considering her achievements | ||
H | Dorothy Jordan Lloyd | Biochemistry | Page exists but no references really, and no infobox | ||
H | Polly Porter | Crystallography | Mentor to Dorothy Hodgkin, National Museum in Washington DC, Oxford Museum & University of Oxford, X-ray crystallography, The Barker Index of Crystals. | Member of Council of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain, authored classic work, published some of earliest work on x-ray crystallography | |
H | Ellie Knaggs | Crystallography | University of Cambridge, Imperial College, Royal Institution, Burroughs Wellcome. | Hertha Ayrton Fellowship, determined crystal structures such as that of cyanuric triazide, elected Visitor to the Royal Institution | |
H | Agnes Pockels | Physical chemistry | Surface science | Page exists but more could be added from Women in Chemistry | |
H | Dorothy Cayley | Mycology | Tulips, | Page exists but rather brief. | |
H | Draft:Caroline Pellew | Genetics | Flower colour, peas, chromosome theory, William Bateson, Genetical Society | Extensive work on the genetics of peas and primula, "right hand man" to Bateson, first Secretary of the Genetical Society | |
H | Muriel Bristol | Mycology | Algae, tea, | Involvement in pioneering statistical work | |
M | Margaret Buckingham | Developmental biology | Muscles, genetics, Pasteur Institute | ForMemRS | |
H | Charlotte Kipling | Biology | Fish, University of Cambridge, computing | Fellow of the Statistical Society | |
H | Patricia H. Clarke | Biochemistry | The Rising Tide, microbiology, UCL, bacteria | FRS | |
H | Bella MacCallum | Botany | Wetlands, fungi, New Zealand (see Ladies in the Laboratory III) | Fellow of the Linnean Society | |
H | Elizabeth Lomax | Botany | Botanical Exchange Club, Torquay, collecting | Herbarium donated to Manchester | |
H | Elsie M. Burrows | Botany | Phycology, Liverpool University, macroalgae | Page exists but needs information on the importance of her work | |
H | Ethel Sargant | Cytology and morphology | Synaptic phase, triple fusion, Royal Society | President of the Botanical Section of the British Association. Page exists but not many details of her work, no infobox. | |
H | Frances Adams Le Sueur | Botany and conservation | Jersey, flowers, source, source. | Page exists but much more could be added from sources and especially from International Women in Science (see Google books) | |
M | Judith Howard | Structural chemistry | X-ray crystallography, five-star department head, | Page exists but very brief and no explanation of her work | |
M | Ann Tsukamoto | Stem cell research | Blood systems, cancer | Co-patentee of a process to isolate the human stem cell. Recognised by BBC100 Women. | |
H | Una Ledingham | Biology | Diabetes, pregnancy, | Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians | |
M | Anne Walton (chemist) | Inorganic chemistry | CChem, FRSC | ||
M | Madeline Jacobs | Science communication | CEO of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents, former CEO of the American Chemical Society | ||
M | Suze Kundu | Nanochemistry | MRSC | ||
M | Ifat Shah | Biochemistry | MRSC | ||
M | Motaza Khater | Analytical chemistry | Founder of the Federation of African Societies of Chemistry, FRSC | ||
M | Eleanor Schofield | Materials science | Conservation manager for the Mary Rose | ||
M | Denise Conner | Analytical chemistry | Plastic pigments, LGBT campaigner | Founder of Out in Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM) | |
M | Lorelly Wilson | Science education | CSci, CChem, FRSC, founder of Chemistry with Cabbage | ||
M | Hala Sultan Saif Al-Easa | Organic chemistry | Photochemistry, medicinal plants, Qatar University | Head of Chemistry at Qatar University, President of Qatar Chemical Society | |
M | Mary Garson | Biochemist | Page exists but no infobox | ||
M | Reiko Kuroda | Materials chemistry | L’Oréal–UNESCO prizewinner 2013, stereochemistry, chirality | Page exists but very brief | |
M | Zanariah Binti Abdullah | Organic chemistry | University of Malaya, Queen Mary University, outreach | FRSC | |
M | Sylvia Anie | Healthcare and chemistry | Commonwealth Secretariat, HIV and AIDS | CSci, CChem, FRSC | |
M | Geetha Srinivasan | Physical chemistry | Polymers, petrochemistry, electrochemistry | CSci, CChem, MRSC, L’Oréal-UNESCO award-winner | |
M | Ellen Kooijman | Microanalysis | Head of the Vegacenter for Microanalysis, inspiration behind the LEGO 'Research Institute' | ||
M | Romeela Mohee | Environmental engineering | University of Mauritius, waste reduction, biochar | FRSC | |
M | Helen Neville (chemist) | Product research and development | Proctor & Gamble | FRSC, Vice-President of Research and Development at P&G | |
M | Mah Hussain-Gambles | Pharmacology | Skincare, Sutherland University, University of Leeds, halal | MBE, CChem, MRSC, founder of Saar Pure Skincare | |
M | Katriona Methven | Cosmetovigilance | L’Oréal, regulation, cosmetics | CChem, MRSC, judge of the L’Oréal-UNESCO awards | |
M | Sue Gibson (chemist) | Synthesis | Rosalind Franklin Award, Royal Society, OBE, diversity campaigner | Page exists but brief | |
M | Bernadette Modell | Genetics | Blood, WHO, UCL, University of Cambridge | Wellcome Trust PRF | |
M | Cathy Price | Neuroscience | Language, MRI, UCL | Wellcome Trust PRF | |
M | Heidi Johansen-Berg | Neuroscience | Plasticity, rehabilitation, ageing | Wellcome Trust PRF | |
M | Patricia Simpson | Biology | Insects, evolution | FRS, Wellcome Trust PRF, page exists but stub | |
M | Linda Wicker | Immunogenetics | Diabetes, genetics | Wellcome Trust PRF | |
M | Patricia Jacobs | Genetics | Chromosomes, University of Southampton, abnormalities, Klinefelter syndrome | FRS, Wellcome Trust PRF, page exists but relatively short | |
M | Doreen Cantrell | Immunology | Winner of the 2017 Novartis Medal and Prize, page exists but short | ||
M | Bonnie Wallace | Molecular biophysics | Winner of the 2010 AstraZeneca Award, FRSC, FAAAS, FIOB, FIUPAC | ||
M | Helen Walden | Biochemistry | Winner of the 2015 Colworth Medal, | ||
M | Wendy Bickmore | FRS | |||
M | Yvonne Jones | FRS, page exists but stub | |||
M | Anne Neville (engineer) | FRS, page exists but nothing on her work | |||
M | Josephine Pemberton | FRS, page exists but not much on her work | |||
M | Sarah (Sally) Price | FRS, page exists but nothing on her work | |||
M | Susanne von Caemmerer | FRS, page needs infobox | |||
M | Kate Storey (biologist) | Cell biologist | Neural cells, University of Dundee | Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences | |
M | Susan Michie | Psychologist | Health psychology, King's College | FMedSci, page exists but needs citations and infoxbox | |
M | Giovanna Mallucci | Neuroscientist | Toxicology, neuroscience, University of Cambridge | FMedSci, page exists but is tiny | |
M | Tracy Hussell | Immunologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Jane Apperley | Haematologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Dorothy C Bennett | Geneticist | FMedSci | ||
M | Anne Bertolotti | Neurobiologist | FMedSci, 2018 winner of the GlaxoSmithKline Award | ||
M | Azra Ghani | Epidemiologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Linda Greensmith | Neurologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Alison Holmes | Microbiologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Jill Pell | Epidemiologist | FMedSci | ||
M | Rhian Touyz | Cardiologist | FMedSci, page exists but no infobox | ||
M | Christine J. Watson | Pathologist | FMedSci, might be harder to source though | ||
M | Margaret Whitehead | Public health adviser | DBE, FMedSci, page exists but brief and no infobox | ||
M | Sheila Hollins, Baroness Hollins | Psychiatrist | learning disabilities | Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry of Disability, St George’s, University of London. Page exists, no infobox | |
M | Gill McGauley | Forensic Psychiatrist | Professor of Forensic Psychotherapy and Medical Education at St George’s, University of London (until her death in July 2016). She was also a Consultant Psychiatrist in Forensic Psychotherapy. (no page) | ||
M | Pippa Oakeshott | General Practice | Professor of General Practice at St George’s, University of London. Also a practising GP in Lambeth, London. (no page) | ||
M | Emma Baker (Professor) | Clinical Pharmacology & General Medicine | Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at St George's, University of London and Consultant Physician in Clinical Pharmacology and General Medicine at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. (no page) |