Research Fellow
Mrs J. H. Hickford, of the University of Canterbury, has been awarded the 1.C.1. (N.Z.) research fellowship for 1965.
Mrs Hickford was educated iat Christchurch Girls’ High School and the University of Canterbury. In 1962 she was awarded a Senior Scholarship of the University and the Haydon Prize for Chemistry and in 1963 she graduated master of science with first-class honours in chemistry.
Since 1964, Mrs Hickford has been an assistant lecturer in the chemistry department of the university and is now studying for her doctorate of philosophy, her research project being “a study of low valency states of certain transition metals.”
Music is Mrs Hickford's main outside interest and she is an accomplished pianist, holding two performer’s diplomas as well as a teacher’s diploma. She is also a member of the Christchurch Harmonic Society choir. Mrs Hickford has also distinguished herself in the sporting field gaining New Zealand Universities’ blues for hockey in 1961 and 1962 and touring Australia with the New Zealand Universities’ hockey team Lq 1961.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30736, 28 April 1965, Page 2
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