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Hilda Mary Judd (1882–1951) was an English biochemist who contributed to research into painkillers and food storage during World War I.

Family and education

Hilda was one of two children of geologist John Wesley Judd, Dean of the Royal College of Science, and his wife Jeannie, daughter of manufacturing chemist John Jeyes. Educated at a private school in Hastings, she studied at the Royal College of Science from 1901 to 1904, winning the Frank Hatton Prize there in her final year.

Early career

Judd carried out research work at Imperial College London, representing the college at the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in South Africa in 1905. She lectured in science at Goldsmith's College from 1906 to 1915. Back at Imperial College from 1916, Judd researched silk, working and co-publishing with chemists Martin Onslow Forster and John B. Farmer.

Wartime research

During World War I, Judd was one of a team of women selected by Martha Whiteley to prepare 'certain substances for the Naval hospitals,' that is, painkillers. The team consisted of Dorothy Haynes, Winifred Hurst, Hilda Judd, Frances Micklethwait, and Sibyl Widdows working as voluntary researchers, with Ethel Thomas and Louise Woll employed by them. Judd and her colleague Dorothy Haynes went on to investigate the chemical changes involved in the cold storage of fruits for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

Later life

The Royal Institute of Chemistry provided her with an allowance as she cared for her mother and brother later in life.

She died in 1951.

References

1. ^ Barrett, Anne (2017-02-24). Women At Imperial College; Past, Present And Future. World Scientific. pp. 233–4. ISBN 978-1-78634-264-5.
2. Gay, Hannah (2007). The History of Imperial College London, 1907-2007: Higher Education and Research in Science, Technology, and Medicine. Imperial College Press. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-86094-818-3.
3. ^ Gay, Hannah; Griffith, William (2016-11-03). Chemistry Department At Imperial College London, The: A History, 1845-2000. World Scientific. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-78326-975-4.
4. Forster, Martin Onslow; Judd, Hilda Mary (1910-01-01). "XXVII.—The triazo-group. Part XII. Derivatives of para-triazobenzaldehyde". Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions. 97: 254–264. doi:10.1039/CT9109700254. ISSN 0368-1645.
5. Fara, Patricia (2018). A Lab of One's Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War. Oxford University Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-0-19-879498-1.
6. Rayner-Canham, Marelene; Rayner-Canham, Geoff (2024-09-13). Allies of Pioneering Women Chemists: Some Supportive British Male Chemists and Their Women Students (1880–1930). Royal Society of Chemistry. ISBN 978-1-83767-494-7.
7. Creese, Mary R. S. (1991). "British Women of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Who Contributed to Research in the Chemical Sciences". The British Journal for the History of Science. 24 (3): 275–305. doi:10.1017/S0007087400027370. ISSN 0007-0874. JSTOR 4027231.
8. Haynes, D.; Judd, H. M. (1919). "The Effect of Methods of Extraction on the Composition of Expressed Apple Juice, and a Determination of the Sampling Error of such Juices". The Biochemical Journal. 13 (3): 272–277. doi:10.1042/bj0130272. ISSN 0264-6021. PMC 1258870. PMID 16742862.
9. Harris, Mary Elizabeth (2019-05-13). Rocks, Radio And Radar: The Extraordinary Scientific, Social And Military Life Of Elizabeth Alexander. World Scientific. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-78634-666-7.

• 1882 births
• 1951 deaths
• 20th-century English women scientists
• Academics of Goldsmiths, University of London
• British women biochemists
• Women in World War I
• Alumni of the Royal College of Science