released from the Admiralty, was able to find work at a Sheffield steel works.

In 1921, Frederick Soddy, then at the University of Oxford, obtained funding to rehire Hitchins as a technical assistant. He had recently received the Nobel prize for his work on radioactivity and isotopes. In 1922, Hitchins became his private research assistant. She continued to work with him until 1927, when she emigrated to Kenya to be nearer to her family.

Radioactive research

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