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Boole, Lucy Everest (1862-1904)
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writer & professor & researcher in pharmaceutical chemistry
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Irish; born in Blackrock
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daughter of Mary Everest & George Boole; sister of Ethel L. Voynich, Alicia Boole Stott
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London School of Medicine for Women; collaborated with W. R. Dunstan; Proceedings of the Royal Society of London
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- "Lucy Everest Boole (1862-1905)." Ask About Ireland (http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/science-technology/irish-scientists/lucy-everest-boole-(1862-/)
- Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/)
- Cullen, Clara. "'Starry Eyed': Women in Science in Nineteenth-Century Ireland." Knowing Their Place: The Intellectual Life of Women in the 19th Century. Brendan Walsh, ed. The History Press, 2014, ch. 1.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. © Oxford University Press
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collaborated in "An enquiry into the nature of the vesicating constituent of croton oil"; "VIII. The physiological action of the nitrites of the paraffin series, considered connection with their chemical constitution"