Английская Википедия:Isabel Hardwich

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use British English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox engineer Isabel Helen Hardwich Шаблон:Post-nominals Шаблон:Small (Шаблон:Nee; 19 September 1919Шаблон:Spaced ndash19 February 1987) was an English electrical engineer, an expert in photometry, and fellow and president of the Women's Engineering Society.

Early life and education

Isabel Helen Cox was born on 19 September 1919 at Streatham, London.Шаблон:R She attended Furzedown Primary School and Streatham Secondary School (both London County Council schools).Шаблон:R She was accepted into Newnham College, Cambridge, to read for the Natural Sciences Tripos, where she specialised in physics, studying there from 1938 to 1941. In 1941, she joined [[Metropolitan-Vickers|MetropolitanШаблон:NbhVickers Electrical Company Ltd]] (MetropolitanШаблон:NbhVickers), Stretford, Manchester, completing an initial two-year college-apprenticeship course in engineering.Шаблон:R In 1942, she joined the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE, now the Institution of Engineering and Technology) as an associate member.Шаблон:R In 1945, she received her MA from Newnham, and on 23Шаблон:NbspFebruary 1945, she was elected to a fellowship of the Physical Society of London, now the Institute of Physics, transferring from student membership.Шаблон:R In the same year, she married John Norman Hardwich, who at the time, was working as an engineer in the High Voltage Research Laboratory at MetropolitanШаблон:NbhVickers. He was an associate and supporter of the Women's Engineering Society, and he shared the burden of running the home to allow Isabel to continue working at MetropolitanШаблон:NbhVickers.Шаблон:R

Career

After completion of her apprenticeship, Hardwich worked in the Research Department at MetropolitanШаблон:NbhVickers, becoming one of the original members of the electron microscope team. After a year and a half of working on this project she shifted her focus and began building a photometric laboratory, however this was badly damaged in a fire.Шаблон:R She then worked on a setting up a large Hilger ultraviolet spectrometer, then designing an [[X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy|XШаблон:Nbhray spectrometer]].Шаблон:R She became a member of the Illuminating Engineering Society in 1947, joined the society's Manchester Centre Committee in 1948, and served on both the education and papers sub‑committees.Шаблон:R In 1950, she was elected a full member of the IEE.Шаблон:R

By 1959, Hardwich was working with beryllium to find the optimum method of refining, melting, and welding it, for use in cans holding enriched uranium inside nuclear reactors.Шаблон:R Like most of the staff, she lectured part‑time at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology and the Royal College of Advanced Technology, Salford.Шаблон:R In May 1960, she was given responsibility for the employment and training of the technical women within the company's research department.Шаблон:R She took on the role following the retirement of Beryl May Dent as section leader for the women in the research department.Шаблон:R Throughout her career she campaigned to educate, recruit, and support young women into the industry as professional engineers.Шаблон:R She was the only woman engineer delegate at the IEE conference held in Belfast in May 1963.Шаблон:R She played a key role in the first six International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, particularly in arranging the second conference held in Cambridge in 1967.Шаблон:R At the end of that conference, she chaired a committee developed to ensure that a third ICWES conference would take place, its members included Ebun Oni, Mahin Rahmani, Dorothy Mizoguchi, Bilge Özgüner and Angelina Perez Lopez.Шаблон:R

Hardwich was notable for her involvement in the Women's Engineering Society.Шаблон:R She joined in 1941 and helped to set up its Manchester branch the year after, alongside her great friend motor engineer Elsie Eleanor Verity, and Dorothy Smith, a colleague at MetropolitanШаблон:NbhVickers.Шаблон:R Subsequently, she served as chairman for the session 1947 to 1948. As chairman, she gave the first talk organised by the Manchester branch in that year, an address entitled "Lighten Our Darkness", that introduced the theory of relativity.Шаблон:R She was editor of the society's journal, The Woman Engineer, from 1952 to 1956.Шаблон:R She went on to serve as the vice president of the society from 1956 to 1960 and as president from 1961 to 1962.Шаблон:R She succeeded Madeleine Nobbs in the role and was succeeded in turn by Cicely Thompson.Шаблон:R From 1966 to 1973, she was honorary secretary to the society. She was also elected a fellow of the Society of Women Engineers having been a member since 1962. Hardwich retired in 1979.Шаблон:R

Death and legacy

Hardwich died on 19Шаблон:NbspFebruary 1987 at her home in Flixton, a suburb in Trafford, Greater Manchester. The funeral service and committal was held on 26Шаблон:NbspFebruary 1987 at Manchester Crematorium.Шаблон:R Her archive is held at the Institution of Engineering and Technology.Шаблон:R The Women's Engineering Society has awarded the Isabel Hardwich medal, named in her honour, since 1987. This is given to a member who has made an outstanding and sustained contribution to the Society over a number of years and "gone above and beyond the call of duty". Past recipients include:Шаблон:R Шаблон:Columns-list

See also

• Electrical Association for Women
• Gertrude Lilian Entwisle
• Anne Gillespie Shaw
• Dorothy Smith

Further reading

• Шаблон:Cite journal

External links

• The Isabel Hardwich archive in the National Archive for Electrical Science and Technology at the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
• Isabel Hardwich via Grace's Guide.