May Sybil Leslie
May Sybil Leslie (born August 14, 1887 in Woodlesford , Great Britain , † July 3, 1937 in Bardsey , Great Britain ) was a British chemist .
Career
May Sybil Leslie was born during the reign of Queen Victoria to Frederick Leslie, a coal miner and bookseller, and his wife Elizabeth, née Dickinson, in the former English county of Yorkshire . She attended schools in Leeds and graduated from high school in 1905. In 1908 she earned a Bachelor of Science with honors in chemistry from the University of Leeds and in 1909 a Master of Science for her research with HM Dawson in the field of kinetics in the iodination of acetone . In the same area she then worked from 1909 to 1911 as a research assistant with Marie Curie in Paris . During this time she wrote several scientific articles in French on the extraction of new elements from thorium and their properties. On the recommendation of Curie, she then moved to Manchester to work with Ernest Rutherford at the Physical Laboratory of the Victoria University, Manchester on the properties of thorium and actinium . She worked there from 1911 to 1912. She then taught from 1912 to 1913 as a teacher at a high school in West Hartlepool and from 1914 to 1915 as an assistant professor of chemistry at University College in Bangor ( Wales ).
During the First World War , Leslie worked on the large-scale manufacture of explosives in Liverpool . In those years women enjoyed little reputation in science and engineering. Hence, both of their employments, in both Bangor and Liverpool, were unusual and could probably be explained by the lack of men during the war. She lost her job in explosives research in 1917 when the male engineers returned from the front.
In 1918 she received a PhD from the University of Leeds for her combined work on thorium and explosives. In the same year she became a demonstrator in chemistry at the University of Leeds and in 1928 a full lecturer in physical chemistry . During these years, Leslie's research focused primarily on the chemistry of synthetic dyes . In 1920 she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry .
Leslie married Alfred Hamilton Burr, a chemist at the University of Salford , in 1923 . In 1929 she left the University of Leeds to be with her husband and only returned to Leeds after his death in 1933.
Works
- Leslie, MS: Le thorium et ses produits de désagrégation, Le Radium, 8 (10): 356, 1911, doi : 10.1051 / radium: 01911008010035601
- Leslie, MS: Sur la période du radiothorium et le nombre des particules α données par le thorium et ses produits, Le Radium, 9 (8): 276, 1912, doi : 10.1051 / radium: 0191200908027601
- Leslie, MS: LXI.A comparison of the coefficients of diffusion of thorium and actinium emanations, with a note on their periods of transformation, Philosophical Magazine Series 6, 24 (142): 637, 1912 doi : 10.1080 / 14786441008637369
- Mrs. May Sybil Leslie Burr: The Alkaline Earth Metals , Griffin, 1925
- John Newton Friend; Joshua Craven Gregory; May Sybil (Leslie) Burr: Beryllium and its congeners , Griffin, 1926
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Leslie (married name Burr), May Sybil (1887–1937), chemist . In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004, ISBN 9780198614111 , doi : 10.1093 / ref: odnb / 51604
- ↑ a b Morrish, PS: May Sybil Leslie (Burr) Papers, Leeds University Library, April 1975
- ^ A b c Rayner-Canham, Marelene F .: A Devotion to Their Science: Pioneer Women of Radioactivity , McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7735-1642-7 , pp. 76-81
- ^ A b c Rayner-Canham, Marelene F. & Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey: Women in Chemistry: Their Changing Roles from Alchemical Times to the Mid-twentieth Century , Chemical Heritage Foundation, 2001, ISBN 978-0-941901-27- 7 , pp. 165-169
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Leslie, May Sybil |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burr, May Sybil (name after marriage) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British chemist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woodlesford , UK |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1937 |
| Place of death | Bardsey (West Yorkshire) |