Wednesday 10 June 2020

1306) Rona Robinson

Rona Robinson (1884–1962). First woman in the United Kingdom to gain a first-class degree in chemistry and one of the first documented female industrial chemists. She was also a British suffragette and paid member of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU).

- "... Rona Robinson, enthusiastically described by West as 'a glorious red-haired bachelor of science, who had been in and out of goal for the cause'."  https://books.google.it/books…




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