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Nora RenoufNora Priscilla Renouf (d. 1934) was a British pharmaceutical chemist who was a pioneer for women’s involvement in the profession. Early life and educationShe was born in Jersey to Clément Renouf and his wife Priscilla, née Noël.[1] After working in a chemist’s shop on her home island, she studied at the School of Pharmacy at the University of London.[2] She passed the Major examination and received a certificate of honour in practical chemistry in 1903.[3] She and Elsie Wardle were to become the first women to attend the School’s annual dinner in 1913.[4] Scientific careerRenouf received the Redwood Research Scholarship in 1904 and worked in the Research Laboratory of the Pharmaceutical Society.[5] In 1905–7 she worked as a Salters Research Fellow, the first woman and the first pharmacist to receive the Fellowship in Chemistry from the Salters' Company.[2] During this time she made several investigations with Arthur William Crossley,[6] and together they 'cleared up several questions from the earlier literature on chemical constitution.'[7] She was a founding member of the Association of Women Pharmacists, where she served as treasurer from 1907 – 1916.[2] In 1909, she was one of the signatories of a letter to Chemical News requesting that women be admitted as Fellows of the Chemical Society.[8] She became one of the first cohort of women fellows there in 1920.[9] Later lifeDuring World War I, she worked in a hospital in the Channel Islands.[2] She worked as a surveyor for the Fuel Research Board of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, where she was appointed Secretary in 1922.[10] She died in 1934.[2] References
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