Died 1969 Occupation Geologist | Nationality United Kingdom Name Ida Slater | |
Full Name Ida Lilian Slater Born 1881 Hampstead, London, England | ||
Ida Lilian Slater (1881-1969) was a British geologist who received the Daniel Pidgeon Fund jointly with Helen Drew (funding awarded in 1907 and 1906 respectively) to undertake field work investigating the Palaeozoic rocks of Wales.
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Early career
Slater and Helen Drew arrived at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1900 to study geology as part of their degrees.
Slater was secretary of the Sedgwick Club, Cambridge in 1903.
Career
Slater collaborated with Gertrude Elles on the stratigraphy of the Lower Palaeozoic (Elles and Slater 1906) of Wales.
After undertaking research, she was appointed a demonstrator for Catherine Raisin, employed to help run the department and laboratories, at the new laboratory rooms for geology and botany (established 1897) at Bedford College (London) in 1910, she held the post for two years.
In 1910 Slater published the results of her research into the Palaeozoic of Wales jointly with Helen Drew.