December 5, 1904 - Death of Lucy Everest Boole, first female professor at the London School of Medicine for Women and first female member of the Royal Institute of Chemistry

Lucy Boole, Irish chemist and pharmacist, was the first female professor at the London School of Medicine for Women at the Royal Free Hospital and the first female member of the Royal Institute of Chemistry.

In addition, he developed the procedure for analyzing tartar emetic which was proposed in a joint paper with Sir Wyndham Dunstan in 1889, becoming the official method of analysis until 1963.

If you want to know more about this remarkable and pioneering scientist of her time, click on the following link: Lucy Everest Boole

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