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Mary Beatrice Thomas was a British chemist and one of the nineteen signatories of the 1904 petition to the Chemical Society.

Early life and education
Mary Beatrice Thomas was a student at King Edward VI High School for Girls (KEVI) in Birmingham like her contemporary, Dorothy Marshall.

The 1904 petition to the Chemical Society
In 1904, Thomas, along with eighteen other British women chemists, signed a petition setting out their reasons to the Chemical Society why they should be afforded Fellowship status like their male counterparts. The petition eventually led to the admission of women as Fellows of the Society (one of the Societies that amalgamated to become the Royal Society of Chemistry), as well as identifying prominent female chemists working in Britain at this time.