Site Represents a site. End Date 1983 Show Point true Pin PIN5 Prim Media 707 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Ettie Stewart Steele Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived pioneeringwomenwalkingtourmap Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 370 Type The nature or genre of the resource Site Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,56.342130317992755,-2.7934214474407786; Description An account of the resource Ettie Stewart Steele was a chemist born on October 5th, 1890, in Dunfermline. She matriculated at the University of St Andrews in 1908, where she received an M.A. in 1912, a BSc in 1914 and then a PhD in 1919. <p>She was the first female candidate to submit a thesis for her PhD in 1919, graduating with Dr Grace Cumming Leitch as the first female PhD holders from the University of St Andrews in 1920. Her thesis was called The Structure of Mannitol, which was completed under the supervision of Dr James Irvine, a well-renowned chemist and the principal of the University of St Andrews from 1921 until his death in 1952. <p>After getting her PhD, Stewart Steele became the first female lecturer in Chemistry in 1920. The School of Chemistry at the University of St Andrews named a reading room after Dr. Steele, which is currently located in the Purdie Building in North Haugh. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1890 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource amm60 Europeana Specific elements of the Europeana Semantic Elements. Europeana Type The Europeana material type of the resource. TEXT