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Lesley Yellowlees
British chemist
Lesley Jane Yellowlees (born 1953) is a British inorganic chemist conducting research in Spectroelectrochemistry, Electron transfer reactions and Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) Spectroscopy.
Yellowlees Douglas (born ), American academic; Lesley Yellowlees (born ), British chemist; Michael Yellowlees (born ), Scottish field hockey player.
Yellowlees was also elected as the president of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2012–14 and was the first woman to hold that role .[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Early life and education
Yellowlees was born in 1953 in London, moving to Edinburgh at the age of 9 and attending St Hilary's Girls' School.
Her father worked for Rank Hovis McDougall, and she has two sisters.[12] She completed her higher education at the University of Edinburgh, gaining a BSc in Chemical Physics in 1975, and PhD in Inorganic Electrochemistry in 1982.
Yellowlees was the only woman graduate in her undergraduate class, graduating with a first.[13] Conti