Christina Miller

Christina Cruikshank Miller (Chrissie Miller) was a Scottish chemist born in 1899 in Coatbridge, Scotland. She was the first female chemist and one of the first five women elected to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Despite being deaf from childhood and losing the sight of one eye in a laboratory explosion in 1930, Miller made significant contributions to the field of chemistry. She was inspired to study chemistry after reading an article about industrial analytical chemistry as a career choice for women. The Christina Miller Building at Edinburgh University's Kings Buildings and Christina Miller Hall at Heriot-Watt University are named in her honor.