Rosemary Candlin (born Rosemary Shaw in 1927) is a crystallographer and computer scientist who joined the University of Edinburgh Computer Science Department shortly after it was first established, and for some time was the only woman lecturer on the staff.
She worked there from 1968 to 1995, helped design the curriculum in its early years, and developed a specialist interest in parallel programming.
She had a succession of jobs in crystallography: at the Natural History Museum, London, at Princeton, then back to the University of Cambridge as a research assistant to Helen Megaw.
[1] She went on to take up a position at the university's Computer Science Department which had been recently established by Professor Sidney Michaelson FRSE, who wanted her to teach first-year students how to program.
[3] As a result of World War II the family had to move house several times, and Candlin's schooling was disrupted.