Isabel Hodgson Hadfield was a British physical chemist and one of the first women to be employed as a scientific member of staff for the metallurgy department of the National Physical Laboratory.
13 Facts About Isabel Hadfield
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Isabel Hodgson Hadfield was born on 29 January 1893 to Annie and George William Hadfield in Welling, Kent, the youngest of three siblings.
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Isabel Hadfield joined the Birmingham Education Council in 1915, working as a chemistry mistress.
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Isabel Hadfield was one of the first two women in the scientific staff within the metallurgy department, alongside Marie Gayler.
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Isabel Hadfield initially worked alongside Mr Murdock for the India Office, with a focus on steel analysis.
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Isabel Hadfield moved to work in research and testing on the chemical problems related to aeronautics with Dr Guy Barr, contributing to reports submitted to the Fabrics Research Co-ordinating Committee of DSIR.
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Isabel Hadfield presented a paper entitled Some Chemical Problems in the Cotton Industry at the International Conference of Women in Science, Industry and Commerce at the British Empire Exhibition on 16 July 1925, speaking alongside the American engineer Ethel H Bailey and electrical engineer Margaret Partridge.
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Isabel Hadfield's work experimenting with very small specimens led to her selection in 1931 by Dr Cecil H Desch to develop microchemical methods in the NPL.
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Isabel Hadfield's work included experiments and examinations of porcelain apparatus, which were excluded from the existing standard.
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Isabel Hadfield was a member of the Society for Analytical Chemistry, joining in 1944, and the National Union of Scientific Workers.
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Isabel Hadfield retired from the NPL in March 1953, at which time she held the role of Principal Scientific Officer.
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Isabel Hadfield was particularly known within the NPL for her contributions to the welfare of female staff.
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Isabel Hodgson Hadfield died in Alresford, Hampshire on 6 February 1965.