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Early Life and Education
Elizabeth Kempson was a women scientist and was born on the 3rd of January in 1906 in Coventry. She was educated at Wolverhampton high school and in 1928, when she was attending the University of Birmingham, she was privileged to get an honors degree in Chemistry. While staying in Birmingham, she undertook research with Norman Haworth where she met Edmund George Vincent Percival, who was Haworth's senior research assistant. In 1934, Kempson and Percival married. In the same year, Percival attended the University of Edinburgh where he was appointed to a lectureship. This is where Kempson started to research synthesis and the reactions of carbohydrates. As she continued she eventually earned a PhD in 1941. Their interest soon turned to marine polysaccharides when the Scottish Seaweed Research Association was founded. When Percival died in 1951, Kempson had to take over the research and was appointed lecturer, while taking care of two children. She continued with her work and interest in polysaccharides chemistry, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. On the year of 1962, she had married Richard Mcdowell of Alginate Industries Ltd. After their marriage they wrote a monograph together called Chemistry and Enzymology of seaweed Polysaccharides. After that, Kempson was a Honorary lecturer when she moved to Royal Holloway College.