Dora Richardson
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Dora Nellie Richardson (1919-1998) was a chemist who first synthesised Tamoxifen in England in 1962.[1] She was born on 1 June 1919 and died in September 1998 in England.[2]
Richardson decided to become a chemist after seeing people working in hospital laboratories while visiting her grandmother in hospital in London. She earned a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from University College London in 1941, and a PhD in 1953.[1] Her dissertation in organic chemistry was on the synthesis of heterocyclic compounds.[3]
Richardson began her career at Imperial Chemical Industries in 1943, working there until her retirement.[1] In the early 1960s, she worked on synthesising compounds, and separated the geometric isomers of a triphenylethylene, which developed the basis for Tamoxifen.[4][5] In 1988, she published an article on the history of the development of Tamoxifen.[6]
Richardson was named on several patents.[7]
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