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Lucy Everest Boole
Lucy Everest Boole FRIC (5 August 1862 – 5 December 1904) was an Irish chemist and pharmacist who was the first woman to research pharmacy in England. She was the first female professor at the London School of Medicine for Women in the Royal Free Hospital, and the first female Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry.
Early life and education.
Boole was born in 1862 in Cork, Ireland, where her father, mathematician and logician George Boole, was professor at Queen's College.
to 1963.
Later life.
Lucy Boole never married and lived with her mother in Notting Hill, London. Her mother summarized her career: "Lucy Everest Boole: never at any college. Learned Chemistry in order to qualify as dispenser or shop assistant in pharmacy. Became Fellow of the Institute of Chemistry, Lecturer in Chemistry and Head of Chemical Laboratories at London School of Medicine for Women." She became ill in 1897 and died in 1904 at the age of 42. Little more is known about her life