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Marie Gayler
Marie Laura Violet Gayler (25  March 1891- 2 August 1976), was a British engineer and material scientist. One of the first women to join the Institute of Metals and the Iron and Steel Institute, she was also a prolific author of scientific papers.

Personal life
Gayler was born in the Brandon Hill area of Bristol in 1891, the youngest of the four daughters of William, a tax inspector, and Ellen Gayler. The family later moved to the St. John's Wood area in London, where she started working as a “girl clerk” in the London Post Office in October 1907 at the age of sixteen. She married John Leslie Haughton, also a material scientist and author of scientific papers, in September 1934, in Staines, Middlesex, but used her maiden name for her professional life and continued work after marriage at a time when this was problematic especially in the civil service, as she worked at the National Physical Laboratory. She died at Brendon nursing home in Winchester in 1976.

Education and Work
After a few years working for the London Post Office, Gayler worked on metallurgical research at the National Physical Laboratory. She subsequently obtained her B.Sc. degree in Chemistry and Mathematics, after which she gained an M.Sc. degree, and finally a D.Sc. for her metallurgical work, the first woman to attain such degree in metallurgy. In 1918, she was elected member of Iron and Steel Institute, one of only four women at that time.