Elsie Woodward Kassner

Elsie Kassner (née Woodward, 1896 – 1959) was a British pharmacist who co-ran a pharmaceutical analysis company with Ella Corfield.

Born Elsie Woodward in April 1896, she was educated at Montagu House School, Weymouth.

[1] She passed the Minor examination to qualify as a pharmacist in 1918, and the Major in 1919, gaining the Bronze medal of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.

[3][4] In 1925, she married an American pharmacist, Mr Kassner, and moved to the United States, where he had a post at the Albany School of Pharmacy.

They were responsible for the rebuilding of the company's laboratories when they were destroyed in World War II.