Evelyn Hickmans

Evelyn Marion Hickmans was a pioneer in developing a treatment for phenylketonuria together with Horst Bickel and John Gerrard. She was an author and co- author of publications about blood chemistry and childhood diseases.

Evelyn was born in 1883 in Wolverhampton.

She took her first and masters degrees at the University of Birmingham. She came to notice when she, Horst Bickel and John Gerrard were persuaded by a persistent mother to help her daughter who was suffering from phenylketonuria. They created a diet that was low in phenylalanine and the daughter recovered.

In 1962, she and her team were awarded the John Scott Medal for their invention of a method for controlling phenylketonuria.

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