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MRS. SEÁN T. O'KELLY, wife of the newly elected president of Ireland, is well known as Miss Phyllis Ryan, public analyst, in Dublin. She studied chemistry under the late Prof. Hugh Ryan at University College, Dublin, graduating in 1916, and obtaining the M.Sc. degree by research in 1917. She collaborated with Prof. Ryan in a number of investigations, including one on the action of nitrous and nitric acids on diphenylamine carried out with the co-operation of Nobels, Ltd. Later, she set up practice as a consulting chemist in Dublin, and became public analyst for twelve Irish county councils. In this connexion, it is of interest to note that all the members of her laboratory staff are women graduate chemists. She has concerned herself vigorously with the organization of the chemical profession in Ireland and is a past president of the Irish Chemical Association. Her new sphere of activity will, unfortunately, prevent her from continuing to take an active part in the work of her profession.
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Mrs. Seán T. O'Kelly. Nature 156, 76–77 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156076d0
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