Nellie Ivy Fisher (1907–1995) was a London-born industrial chemist and researcher who specialized in photographic chemistry and became known for her work in Australia as the first woman to lead a division of Kodak.
[1][2][3] Educated at Paddington and Maida Vale High School, Nellie studied chemistry at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, earning her BSc in 1929.
The partnership was very productive and their work was the subject of Fisher's doctoral thesis at the University of London (PhD, 1938) entitled New Methods of Preparation and Some New Dyes of the Cyanine Series.
[2][5] She worked with the head of research, Neil ‘Blue’ Lewis, synthesising dyes and preparing ‘gelatine colour correction Wratten-type filters and safelight screens’.
[1]Fisher gave a lecture illustrated with lantern slides to a meeting of the (Royal) Australian Chemical Institute in August 1944, on the subject Colour in Relation to the Structure of Organic Compounds with Special Reference to the Cyanine Dyes.
[1][3] Known as Jackie Fisher among her friends, she and her life partner, New Zealand-born medical practitioner, William Wishart, were both enthusiastic bushwalkers and enjoyed their passion even while on holiday overseas.