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Lucy Everest Boole FRIC (5 August 1862 – 5 December 1904) was an Irish chemist and pharmacist who was the first woman to research pharmacy in England. She was the first female professor at the London School of Medicine for Women in the Royal Free Hospital, and the first female Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry.

Early Life and Education

Boole was born in 1862 in Cork, Ireland, where her father, mathematician and logician George Boole, was professor at Queen's College. Her mother, Mary Everest Boole, was a self-taught mathematician and educationalist with an interest in pedagogy. Lucy was the fourth of five sisters, many of whom were also notable. Her sister Alicia Boole was a mathematician and her sister Ethel Lilian Voynich was a novelist. George Boole died in 1864 leaving the family poor; they returned to England where her mother became a librarian at Queen's College, London. Lucy worked as a librarian and residence supervisor at Queens' College but received no university education. She attended the London School of Pharmacy from 1883-1888 where she pursued her training as a pharmacist and passed her Major Examination in 1888.

Professional Career

Shortly after finishing her education at the London School of Pharmacy, Lucy became the research assistant of Wyndham Dunstan, a chemistry professor of the Pharmaceutical Society. She became a lecturer and demonstrator in chemistry 1881 at the London School of Medicine in 1893. In 1894, she was elected the first female fellow of the Institute of Chemistry. It is thought that she was the first female professor of Chemistry at Royal Free Hospital, London. She published collectively with Sir Wyndham Dunstan, including a paper 'An Enquiry into the Vessicating Constituent of Croton Oil', becoming the first woman to co-author a paper regarding research in the pharmaceutical field. In this paper, she proposed a new analytical method using gravimetric techniques as opposed to the previous volumetric techniques. Despite the strong criticism received for Lucy's proposal, it became the official method of assay in the British Pharmacopeia from 1898 to 1963.

add? - (She developed the procedure for analysis of tartar emetic which was proposed in an 1889 joint paper with Dunstan).

Outline for Lucy Boole

I will be improving the existing article named: "Lucy Everest Boole" on Wikipedia
The existing lead section is very concise right now, with information regarding the fact that she was a chemist and pharmacist. Her notable accomplishment of first Female Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry was also noted.
Whats missing:
- In the 'Early Life and Education' section, they fail to mention that she attended the London School of Pharmacy because they placed this portion in the 'Professional career' portion.
- Overall, she was the first woman to research pharmacy in England
- Include that she was a librarian and residence supervisor at Queen's college before she began her professional career
- At the end of her attendance at the School of Pharmacy, she passed her Major Examination in 1888
- Might help the readers to understand if it is included that right after she finished her education at the School of Pharmacy, she quickly became the research assistant of Wyndham Dunstan, who was a chemistry professor of the Pharmaceutical Society
- She was the first woman to co-author a paper published regarding research in the pharmaceutical field
- Describe further the analytical method she proposed (gravimetric method vs volumetric method) (for first paper)
- She was strongly criticized at first for these methods, but became the official method in the British Pharmacopeia from 1898 to 1963
- Also ran a small clinic at the London School of Medicine for Women, while she was a lecturer as well
Sources I used (also post these on talk page): “Ladies in the Laboratory?: American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900: a Survey of Their Contributions to Research.” Ladies in the Laboratory?: American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900: a Survey of Their Contributions to Research, by Mary R. S. Creese and Thomas M. Creese, Scarecrow, 1998, pp. 267–268.

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