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Agnes Marion Moodie (1881 – 1969) was a Scottish chemist who worked on alkylated sugars. She was the first female research chemist at the University of St Andrews. She subsequently worked for the Ministry of Education.

Life
Agnes Moodie was one of the very early female students of mathematics and science at the University of St Andrews, where she studied Maths and Natural Philosophy (physics). She took her M.A. degree in 1902, and went on to take a BSc in Chemistry in 1903. She remained at St Andrews, as the first female research chemist at the university, working with the organic chemist James Irvine. She published 5 papers on alkylated sugars with Irvine. Her work was initially supported by a Berry Scholarship from St Andrews, and by a Carnegie Scholarship from 1906 on.

In 1909 Moodie was one of 31 women chemists who signed a public letter to the Chemical Society petitioning for women to be admitted as Fellows of the Society, but disassociating themselves from the women's suffrage movement.

Little is known of Moodie's subsequent life. She is recorded as retiring from the Ministry of Education in 1946 and moving to Hove in Sussex. She died, unmarried, in 1969.

Published works
Irvine, James Colquhoun, and Agnes Marion Moodie. “CXLIV.—The Alkylation of Mannose.” Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions, vol. 87, no. 0, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Jan. 1905, pp. 1462–68. pubs.rsc.org, doi:10.1039/CT9058701462.

---. “CLX.—The Addition of Alkyl Halides to Alkylated Sugars and Glucosides.” Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions, vol. 89, no. 0, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Jan. 1906, pp. 1578–90. pubs.rsc.org, doi:10.1039/CT9068901578.

---. “LIV.—The Reduction Products of o- and p-Dimethoxybenzoin.” Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions, vol. 91, no. 0, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Jan. 1907, pp. 536–44. pubs.rsc.org, doi:10.1039/CT9079100536.

---. “XI.—Derivatives of Tetramethyl Glucose.” Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions, vol. 93, no. 0, The Royal Society of Chemistry, Jan. 1908, pp. 95–107. pubs.rsc.org, doi:10.1039/CT9089300095.