Elizabeth Eleanor Field was a British chemist and the Head of Chemistry at Royal Holloway College for two decades.
She is also noted as one of the nineteen signatories of the 1904 petition which aimed to grant women the status of Fellows of the Chemical Society.
[1] Field graduated from Newnham College, Cambridge, in 1887[1] and worked as Assistant Demonstrator in Chemistry from 1889 to 1890.
[1] Field left Cambridge to work for two years as assistant mistress (teacher) at Liverpool College for Girls from 1893 to 1895 before taking up the role of Lecturer and Head of Chemistry at the Royal Holloway College where she remained for the next nineteen years until 1913.
[1] In 1904, Field, 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.