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Emily Alicia Aston was a British chemist primarily known for her high publication output during the late 1800s. She was born in Paddington to Joseph Keech Aston and Sarah Eccles. Aston earned bachelor's degrees in both chemistry and geology from University College London before beginning her research career. She studied a broad range of topics, including mineral analysis, atomic weight determination, and organic structure studies, and was most famous for her work on molecular surface energies with Sir William Ramsay between 1893 and 1902. Aston appeared on 14 publications over a sixteen-year period (1886-1902); a "notable feat" for women chemists during that time period. She was appointed a science research scholarship by Her Majesty's Commissioners in 1895 to proceed with research that would be beneficial to the country.
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Aurora Evelyn Clark is an American computational chemist. She is a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah and a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, American Physical Society, and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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