User:Emily k123/sandbox

Another pioneer, Ishbel Grace MacNaughton Campbell, was to fill a similar role to Steele ( female scientist ), but at University College, Southampton. Campbell was born in 1906 and graduated from St.Andrews in 1927. Then she spent a year at Cornwall University, in New York,where she held one of the first Commonwealth Fellowship awarded awarded to a women. On her return, Campbell accepted a Lectureship in Chemistry at Swanly Horticultural Collage. In 1936, she joined Bedford College as a Demonstrator and Teacher,before making her final move in 1938 to University College, Southampton. First as a Lecturer and later as Reader of the University of Southampto

During the Second World War. Her spare time was used to research into chemical warfare. While at Southampton, she preformed a large quantity of researching organometallic compounds. They were published between 1945 and 1966. According to Hocking ( one of her former students, Martin Hocking) Campbell never really retired.

Towards the periods of near her death well into her 80's Campbell was an independent woman, who enjoyed long walks in Southampton hills, which were followed by an enjoyable picnic, with a small group of students to join her. Campbell also enjoyed playing games of tennis. She later died on the 10th of October 1997 at the age of 91.