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She was born in London, England as the fifth child of seven daughters and four sons of Samuel Chick and Emma Hooley, a
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In 1909 Chick was a cosignatory to a letter to The Times newspaper from a group of women graduates of the
University of London calling for them to be allowed to vote for the Member of Parliament returned by their university. In 1913 she was one of the first three women to be admitted to the
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for the army and to develop the first disinfectants aimed at specific microorganisms. She returned to the
Chelsea building, however, to prepare agglutinating sera for diagnosis of typhoid and related diseases in troops. Subsequently, however, she commenced studies on rectifying nutritional
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to study the relation of nutrition to childhood bone disease in post-war Vienna. They discovered the nutritional factor causing rickets, and proved that fat-soluble vitamins present in cod liver oil, or exposure to ultra violet light, could cure and prevent rickets in children.
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health section committee on the physiological bases of nutrition from 1934 to 1937. In 1941 she was a founding member of the
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is still used. A new and, at the time, more realistic test for the effectiveness of disinfectants, the Chick-Martin test, was also devised and named for the two collaborators (see
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deficiencies in the wartime diets of both the native population and overseas forces. Initially this involved surveys of the ability of various foodstuffs to counter
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in 1908, giving the relationship between the kill efficiency of organisms and contact time with a disinfectant. Chick's Law was later modified by
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for her work on green algae in polluted waters. In 1905 at the suggestion of
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Morgan, Neil (1990). "Chick, Harriette". In
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Chemistry Was Their Life: Pioneering British Women Chemists, 1880-1949
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she applied for the Jenner Memorial Research Studentship at the
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in 1908 to include the coefficient of specific lethality. The
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Harriette Chick in conservatory animal house at Roebuck House
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in 1949. In 1960 she received an honorary fellowship of the
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Rayner-Canham, Marelene; Rayner-Canham, Geoffrey (2008).
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