Background
Coward was born on 2 July 1885.
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Katherine Coward
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She studied Botany and graduated M.sc from University of Manchester.
Career
After a few years she joined University College London to study biochemistry and her research on Vitamin-A paved way for her to being nominated to the Fellow of Chemical society in 1923. She continued her studies and research on Vitamin-A in the Department of Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. On her return to Britain she led the newly formed vitamin testing department of Pharmaceuticals Society’s Pharmacological laboratories.
Coward died at the age of 93 on July 8, 1978.
Membership
In 1937 she was elected as an honorary member of Pharmaceuticals Society and retired in 1950.
