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Prename: | Isabel Ellie |
Surname: | Knaggs |
Profession: | Crystallographer |
Birthday: | 08/02/1893 |
Place of birth: | Durban, South Africa |
Date of death: | 1981 |
Place of death: | Sydney |
Education: | North London Collegiate School, B.A. Bedford College, London; 1913–17 Girton College, Cambridge; 1923 Ph.D. Imperial College, London |
Career: | 1917–21 assistant in Arthur Hutchinson’s mineralogical laboratory, Cambridge; 1922–25 geology demonstrator at Bedford College; 1925–27 Hertha Ayrton Fellowship at William Brigg’s laboratory, Royal Institution; from 1927 staff member, Royal Institution |
Biographical literature: | “Ellie Knaggs,” in Marelene Rayner-Canham and Geoff Rayner-Canham, *Chemistry Was Their Life. Pioneer British Women Chemists 1880–1949* (London: Imperial College Press, 2008), 340–2 |