Hilda Ingold
| Edith Hilda Ingold | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Edith Hilda Usherwood 21 July 1898 Catford, London |
| Died | 1988 |
| Alma mater | Imperial College London |
| Spouse(s) | Christopher Kelk Ingold |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Chemistry |
Dr Edith Hilda Ingold (21 May 1898 – 1988) was a British chemist based in Leeds and London. As the wife of Christopher Kelk Ingold her career was somewhat overshadowed by his work and she failed to gain much public recognition, despite being an innovative chemist and partner to her husband in his work on inorganic chemistry. She was known as Lady Ingold following her husband's knighthood.
Known more commonly as Hilda, she was born into a working-class family in Catford (south-east London).
Edith attended a girls Grammar School in Lewisham followed by two years of private education in Horsham. She then moved to the North London Collegiate School after being awarded a Clothworkers Scholarship.
As an undergraduate at Royal Holloway College she attained a BSc Hons in Chemistry (1916-1920) before completing her doctorate in 1923 at Imperial College London. As the doctoral degree was only introduced to British Universities in 1917 she was one of the earliest students to benefit from this training program. Her PhD project was on tautomers, isomers of molecules which differ only in the position of a labile hydrogen atom.
Her subsidiary subject was physics and this lead to her research in physical organic chemistry and quantum mechanics.
Following completion of her PhD she went on to complete a DSc.
Edith married fellow Chemistry student Christopher Kelk Ingold in 1923 and went on to have three children. They had two daughters and a son, the chemist Keith Ingold.
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