Hazel Alden Reason

Hazel Alden Reason (1901 to 1976) was an English chemist who became a schoolteacher and wrote a popular book on the history of chemistry for young people. Born in Friern Barnet, London, the daughter of a Congregational minister, she was educated at Milton Mount College and graduated from Bedford College in 1924 with a BSc in chemistry, then became senior science mistress at the County School for Girls in Guildford. In her spare time she studied for an MSc in the history of science, completed in 1936, and was elected a Fellow of the Chemical Society that year. Her book The Road to Modern Science appeared in 1936, with later editions in 1940 and 1950, and aimed to present scientific discovery to intelligent boys and girls through a broad view rather than a great scientist approach.