Jessie Slater

Jessie Mabel Wilkins Slater (24 February 1879 – 25 December 1961) was an English nuclear physicist who worked as a radiologist at a military hospital in World War I and served as the first woman mayor of Hampstead.

[1] She received her BSc in chemistry from the University of London in 1902,[4] as Cambridge was not awarding degrees to women at the time, and was one of the first women to receive a doctorate in science at the University of London in 1906.

[5] After teaching at Cheltenham Ladies' College from 1909 to 1913, she returned to Newnham as a lecturer in physic and chemistry from 1914 to 1926.

In 1918, she worked as a radiologist at a British military hospital in France.

[7] She served on school care committees and on the Council of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.