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Helen Simpson Gilchrist
Little is know about life of Helen Simpson Gilchrist. Her name is mentioned in the book, Chemistry was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949, in the Chapter 7, Universities in Scotland and Wales. The following information is extracted from the book.

Education
Helen Simpson Gilchrist graduated with B.Sc. degree in Botany and Chemistry in 1917 from University of St.Andrews, the only Scottish university that strongly champion the admission of women students at that time.

Research
She became a Berry Scholar in Chemistry on the same year to pursue chemical research, worked under the supervision and influence of Sir James Colquhoun Irvine, whose research interests were in sugar structures. Irvine's research group continued to 1935, and had contributions from a few other female chemists, Agnes M. Moodie, M. E. Dobson, B. M. Paterson, Ettie S. Steele, and J. K. Rutherford.

In 1918, Gilchrist was awarded a Carnegie Scholarship. But, soon after, she moved to the Ministry of Munitions where she undertook research connected with the war, which included the preparation of novocaine and “mustard gas”.

In 1919, she resumed her Carnegie Scholarship and then, in October 1919, became Research Chemist under the Food and Investigation Board of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), a government research agency which been instituted in 1917. Her research with DSIR has been recognized and she was awarded a Ph.D.

During this time, Gilchrist was also a University Assistant in Chemistry at University of St. Andrews, and continue to collaborate with Irvine in Chemical research.

In 1927, Gilchrist obtained a position at the Royal Institution, and worked on the separation of long-chain hydrocarbons with the Austrian scientist Berta Karlik. She also worked on the synthesis of fats containing a carbohydrate unit.

Publications
I.- A Synthetic Fat containing a Methylglucoside Residue. James Colquhoun Irvine and Helen Simpson Gilchrist. Journal of The Chemical Society, Trans. 1924. Volume 125. Page 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1039/CT9242500001

II.- The Condensation of Mannitol with Olive oil. James Colqhoun Irvine and Helen Simpson Gilchrist. Journal of The Chemical Society, Trans. 1924. Volume 125, 10-15. https://doi.org/10.1039/CT9242500010