Leslie, May Sybil (1887–1937)
Leslie, May Sybil (1887–1937)
English chemist. Name variations: May Sybil Burr. Born Aug 14, 1887, in Yorkshire, England; died July 3, 1937; University of Leeds, BS, 1908, MSc in chemisty, 1909, DSc, 1918; m. Alfred Hamilton Burr (college chemistry lecturer), 1923 (died 1933).
During WWI, researched the chemical reactions in nitric acid production as well as the best conditions for its manufacture; conducted research at Paris' Institut Curie with Ellen Gleditsch (1909–11) and at Manchester's Victoria University (1911–12); researched nitric acid as a research chemist and was later laboratory head at Her Majesty's Factory in Litherland, Liverpool (1915–18); worked as research chemist (1918–20) at Her Majesty's Factory in Penrhyndeudraeth, North Wales; at University of Leeds, was a demonstrator, chemistry department assistant lecturer (1920–24), physical chemistry department lecturer (1924–29) and chemistry department researcher (1933–37); made an associate of the Institute of Chemistry (1918) and a Chemical Society fellow (1920). Wrote Transactions of the Chemistry Society (with H.M. Dawson, 1909) and A Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry (3 vols. ed. by J. Newton Friend, 1925).