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Judith Ann Kathleen Howard[3] CBE FRS (née Duckworth; 21 October 1945 in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire) is a British chemist, crystallographer and Professor of Chemistry at Durham University.[4][5][6]

Early life and education

Judith Howard attended Salisbury Grammar School for girls, and later attended University of Bristol in 1963 to study chemistry.[7]

As a final year undergraduate, Howard worked on the structure of the compound, tin tetra-iron-tetra carbonyl, which was the basis of her very first published work.[3]

She graduated from University of Bristol with a Bachelor of Science degree and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy[8] degree from the University of Oxford where she was a student at Somerville College, Oxford and studied the structure of insulin supervised by Dorothy Hodgkin.[7]

Career and research

In 1991 Howard moved to become Professor of Crystallography at Durham University.[7] She has co-authored over 1,500 scientific publications, resulting in a H-index of 82.[9]

Howard's research is in X-ray crystallography. Her interests include in-situ crystallisation of liquids, ultra-low temperature crystallography, high pressure crystallography, experimental charge density analysis, solid-state reactions the study of non-linear optical materials and magnetically interesting materials.[4]

Howard has created instruments that allow scientists to help advance and prove theories in the field of X-ray crystallography.[10] She is the chairperson of the Olexsys software for refinement of crystallographic data.[11]

Prolific in her contributions to science, with over 1,500 publications to her name,[10] Judith actively participates in committees and conferences worldwide. She was the first woman to head a five-star chemistry department (at the University of Durham). She was one of the founder members of the British Crystallographic Association where she served as Secretary from 1985-1987 and President from 1992-1996.

Awards and honours

She was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree at the University of Bristol in 1986.[12] In 2005 she received an Honorary Degree from the University of Bath. In 2016 she received an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of East Anglia.[13] Other awards include:

References

  1. ^ Cole, Jacqueline Manina (1997). Structural studies of organic and organometallic compounds using x-ray and neutron techniques (PhD thesis). Durham University. OCLC 498562279. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.246419. Free access icon
  2. ^ "Crystallography". In Our Time. 29 November 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Professor Judith Ann Kathleen Howard | Graduation | University of Bristol". Bristol.ac.uk. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Prof. JA Howard - Durham University". Dur.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  5. ^ "BioMed Central - Search results for: Howard_J All words All fields (f…". Archive.is. 21 January 2013. Archived from the original on 21 January 2013. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  6. ^ "Google Scholar". Scholar.google.com. Retrieved 6 February 2019.
  7. ^ a b c Crace, John (26 September 2006). "Judith Howard: Crystal gazing". Theguardian.com. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  8. ^ Howard, Judith Ann Kathleen (1971). The study of some organic crystal structures by neutron diffraction. Jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 500477155. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.459789.
  9. ^ "Judith a K Howard's Publons profile".
  10. ^ a b c Anon (2002). "Judith Howard FRS". Royalsociety.org. Royal Society. Retrieved 14 June 2017. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  11. ^ Dolomanov, Oleg V.; Bourhis, Luc J.; Gildea, Richard J.; Howard, Judith A. K.; Puschmann, Horst (2009). "OLEX2: a complete structure solution, refinement and analysis program". Journal of Applied Crystallography. 42 (2): 339–341. doi:10.1107/s0021889808042726. ISSN 0021-8898.
  12. ^ "Bristol University | Public and Ceremonial Events Office | Honorary degrees". Bristol.ac.uk. 26 July 2013. Retrieved 18 August 2013.
  13. ^ "Honorary Graduates of the University". Portal.uea.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 17 November 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2019.


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