[1] Christina Miller was deaf from childhood and also lost the sight of one eye in a laboratory explosion in 1930.
She suffered from measles and rubella at the age of five, causing her hearing to become damaged[1] which became progressively worse throughout her life.
Miller simultaneously studied on a three-year degree course at Edinburgh University (1917-1920) and a four-year diploma course at Heriot-Watt College (1917-1921),[3] now Heriot-Watt University, which took the form of evening classes during the First World War, during this period she was one of only three women to get a diploma in chemistry.
In 1920 she graduated from Edinburgh University with a BSc with special distinction,[3] won the class medal and was awarded the Vans Dunlop Scholarship which allowed her to undertake research for her PhD.
She made pioneering discoveries in analytical chemistry when this field was still very much a male preserve, and was an inspirational teacher and a mentor to generations of students.
Hobday, Jarvis and Garden have all subsequently been awarded UKRI Future Leader Fellowships.
This article (PDF) contains twenty one personal letters by Dr Christina Cruickshank Miller to J. P. Ward,[13] a former student and pupil, written between 1984 and 2001, the year in which she died aged almost 102.