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British metallurgist and corrosion specialist

She was an amateur engineer in her own time and in 1940 she was one of the first women trainees on the courses run by the Women’s Engineering Society at the Beaufoy Institute in London to prepare women for engineering war work.

Austrian-British electrical engineer and Women’s Engineering Society President in 1980-81; in 1984 donated the Watkins Medal to the society to be awarded to the best female engineering graduate of the year.

In 1915 she joined Walter Rosenhain’s scientific staff in the Metallurgy Department of the National Physical Laboratory, where she would remain for the rest of her career. She and a physical chemist, Miss I. H. Hadfield, were the first women to be appointed to the scientific staff of the Department.

Metallurgist who specialised in the engineering uses for titanium and its alloys.

1959 she gained her chartered engineer status with the Institution of Electrical Engineers (now IET), and moved to planning electrification schemes. In 1961 she and her husband set up their own consultancy, CivLec Industrial Advisory Services.