Katherine Coward

Katherine Hope Coward was a British pharmacologist.

Early life and education

Coward was born on 2 July 1885. She studied Botany and graduated M.sc from University of Manchester. After a few years she joined University College London to study biochemistry and her research on Vitamin-A paved way for her to being nominated to the Fellow of the Chemical Society in 1923. She continued her studies and research on Vitamin-A in the Department of Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Career

On her return to Britain she led the newly formed vitamin testing department of Pharmaceuticals Society's Pharmacological laboratories.[1] In 1937 she was elected as an honorary member of Pharmaceuticals Society and retired in 1950.

Death

Coward died at the age of 93 on 8 July 1978.

References

Rayner-Canham, Marelene; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey. Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists.

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[1] Rayner-Canham, Marelene; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey. Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists.