Judith Howard
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Judith Ann Kathleen Howard[1] Template:Post-nominals (née Duckworth; 21 October 1945 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is a British chemist, crystallographer and Professor of Chemistry at Durham University.[2][3][4]
Early life and education
Judith Howard attended Salisbury Grammar School for girls, and later attended University of Bristol in 1963 to study chemistry.[5]
As a final year undergraduate, Howard worked on the structure of the compound, tin tetra-iron-tetra carbonyl, which was the basis of her very first published work.[1]
She graduated from University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Science degree and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy[6] degree from the University of Oxford where she was a student at Somerville College, Oxford and studied the structure of insulin supervised by Dorothy Hodgkin.[5]
Career and research
In 1991, Howard moved to become Professor of Crystallography at Durham University.[5] She has co-authored over 1,500 scientific publications, resulting in a H-index of 82.[7]
Howard's research is in X-ray crystallography. Her interests include in-situ crystallisation of liquids, ultra-low temperature crystallography, high pressure crystallography, experimental charge density analysis, solid-state reactions the study of non-linear optical materials and magnetically interesting materials.[2]
Howard has created instruments that allow scientists to help advance and prove theories in the field of X-ray crystallography.[8] She is the chairperson of the Olexsys software for refinement of crystallographic data.[9]
Prolific in her contributions to science, with over 1,500 publications to her name,[8] Judith actively participates in committees and conferences worldwide. She was the first woman to head a five-star chemistry department (at the University of Durham). She was one of the founder members of the British Crystallographic Association where she served as Secretary from 1985-1987 and President from 1992-1996.
Awards and honours
She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree at the University of Bristol in 1986.[10] In 2005, she received an Honorary Degree from the University of Bath. In 2016 she received an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of East Anglia.[11] Other awards include:
- 1996 Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- 1999 Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Prize for Structural Chemistry
- 2002 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)[8]
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