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Katherine Hope Coward was a British pharmacologist.
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Early life and education
Coward was born on 2 July 1885. She studied Botany and graduated M.sc from University of Manchester. After a few years she joined University College London to study biochemistry and her research on Vitamin-A paved way for her to being nominated to the Fellow of Chemical society in 1923. She continued her studies and research on Vitamin-A in the Department of Agricultural Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Career
On her return to Britain she led the newly formed vitamin testing department of Pharmaceuticals Society’s Pharmacological laboratories. In 1937 she was elected as an honorary member of Pharmaceuticals Society and retired in 1950.
Death
Coward died at the age of 93 on 8 July 1978.