Katherine Alice Burke

Katherine Alice Burke (1875 – 6 July 1924) was a British chemist and one of the nineteen signatories of the 1904 petition to the Chemical Society.

[3] While at University College, Burke also worked with Fellow of the Royal Society, Edward Charles Cyril Baly and his co-author on six papers Effie Marsden, on studies relating absorption spectra to chemical constitution.

[2] In 1904, perhaps at Ramsay's suggestion,[2] Burke, along with 18 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.

[3] Burke also signed the 1909 letter to the Chemical News along with Effie Marsden and Maud Gazdar.

Her colleague, the Irish scientist Frederick Donnan recorded in her obituary:"In 1906, she was appointed a member of the Chemical Staff at University College, and from that time until her death on July 6th, 1924, she continued her teaching work, having charge of the practical laboratory work for students of the Intermediate Science class, and giving courses of lectures to more advanced students on the chemical aspects of radioactive transformations.