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 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 July 8, 1978.
References
- ^ Rayner-Canham, Marelene; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey. Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists.http://books.google.com/books?id=yD_XlVSwJbcC&pg=PA493&lpg=PA493&dq=Katherine+Coward+biochemist&source=bl&ots=wMVfQ1umFB&sig=HBGCK6SwB_HHPV_B9J-Tj_dp4MU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=COaZU5KfI-aP7AberYDQDA&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=Katherine%20Coward%20biochemist&f=false