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Everyone loves to help a friend, but pioneering medical doctor and novelist Margaret Todd, born in Glasgow in 1859, would doubtless have preferred to be remembered for her six novels or pioneering medical work than the one-word suggestion she made to a friend exactly 100 years ago.
Margaret Georgina Todd (23 de abril de 1859 - 3 de septiembre de 1918) fue una médica y escritora británica, de origen escocés. Fue quien acuñó el término «isótopo» y se lo sugirió a al químico Frederick Soddy.
Margaret Todd lived from 1859 to 3 September 1918. She was a pioneering woman doctor and an author, and the woman who coined the word "isotope". The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
The story depicts the medical and romantic adventures of its eponymous young heroine, a student at the London School of Medicine for Women.
Scottish medical doctor, schoolteacher and writer. Margaret Todd Q4794334)
Margaret Todd was born in New York in 1736. She married a sea captain, William Whetten, who was born in England and moved to the colonies as a young boy. The Whettens lived in New York City but fled to New Rochelle after the British HMS Asia fired on the city on August 23, 1776.
Died: 3 September 1918. Country most active: United Kingdom. Also known as: NA. In 1893, the popular periodical The Nineteenth Century featured an article on ‘Medical Women in Fiction’, written by Sophia Jex-Blake, who was well-known as a pioneer in the movement for women in medicine.
