Born: 25 September 1915, United Kingdom (assumed)
Died: 24 March 2000
Country most active: United Kingdom
Also known as: NA
The following was written by Nina Baker and is excerpted from the book From Alchemy to Transport Phenomena: A Global History of Women in Chemical Engineering.
Daughter of a south London police sergeant, Jessie Dorehill Crampton Mole BSc, PhD, FChemSoc (1915-2000) graduated with a BSc in chemistry from Bedford College in 1936, getting her PhD in 1938. From 1940 she was working as an organic chemist for ICI on Merseyside and soon afterwards was elected to be a Fellow of the Chemical Society. Initially her work was mainly concerned with benzenes and phenyls but post-WW2 she was also working on processes producing materials for the electrical and electronics industries, such as condensers, dielectrics and materials for batteries. From 1950 she was a Civil Service Scientific Officer at the Ministry of Supply’s Atomic Energy Division, and later at the Atomic Research Establishment, Harwell, where she was Assistant to the Director until she retired in 1975.