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Hadfield joined the Birmingham Education Council in 1915, working as a chemistry mistress. In 1917, she joined the National Physical Laboratory as a junior assistant. She was one of the first two women in the scientific staff within the metallurgy department, alongside
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She retired from the NPL in March 1953, at which time she held the role of Principal Scientific Officer. She was particularly known within the NPL for her contributions to the welfare of female staff.
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Her work experimenting with very small specimens led to her selection in 1931 by Dr Cecil H. Desch to develop microchemical methods in the NPL. As a result of this work she became active in the
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sub-committee contributing to the production of updates to B.S. 914:1940. Her work included experiments and examinations of porcelain apparatus, which were excluded from the existing standard.
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in 1914, where her father was a schoolmaster. She earned an M.Sc. in 1923 as a result of her work with the
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Isabel Hodgson Hadfield was born on 29 January 1893 to Annie (nÊe Hodgson) and George William Hadfield in
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Although Hadfield joined the NPL as a result of the demand for female scientists during
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at the International Conference of Women in Science, Industry and Commerce at the
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Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949
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Geoffrey, Rayner-canham; Marelene, Rayner-canham (23 October 2008).
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Scientists of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)
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on 16 July 1925, speaking alongside the American engineer
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National Physics Laboratory in house publication NPL News
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Index

East London College
National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)
National Physical Laboratory
Welling
East London College
metallurgy
Marie Gayler
World War I
DSIR
British Empire Exhibition
Ethel H. Bailey
Margaret Partridge
The Woman Engineer
British Microchemical Club
microchemistry
British Standards Institution
Society for Analytical Chemistry
National Union of Scientific Workers
Alresford, Hampshire






Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949
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