Alice Emily Smith (18 June 1871 – 1924) was a British chemist and one of the nineteen signatories of the 1904 petition to the Chemical Society.
[2] During this period, Smith was one of only five women chemists to receive Chemical Society Research Fund grants between 1902 and 1910.
[4] While working at Bangor, she collaborated with Head of Chemistry, Professor Kennedy J.P. Orton, on a study of reaction mechanisms from 1905 to 1908 which resulted in the publishing of five research papers.
[1][2] Orton was a strong supporter of the rights of women chemists so may have made Smith aware of the 1904 petition to the Chemical Society.
[1] In 1904, Smith, along with eighteen other British women chemists, signed a petition setting out their reasons to the Chemical Society why they should be afforded Fellowship status like their male counterparts.