Elizabeth Helen MacLeod Georgeson
From Graces Guide
Elizabeth Helen MacLeod Georgeson (1895- ) was the first woman to graduate in engineering at a Scottish university – the University of Edinburgh.
She was born in the West End of Glasgow in July 1895. Her father, Frederick Hugh Georgeson, was a Minister of the United Free Church, so the family later moved to Edinburgh where she undertook her secondary education at Canaan Park College.
She worked in research at the Safety in Mines Research Laboratory in Sheffield and published about her findings. She co-authored 7 papers, her first, in 1925, was on the properties of cement particles, but most of her papers published between 1926-42 were on the properties and behaviour of gases in mines.
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