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SALLI ESKOLA professor of chemistry 1906-1994 Salli Eskola become Finland's first woman professor of chemistry, when she was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Helsinki in 1947. During her studies and for three years after graduation, Salli Eskola worked as a mathematics and science teacher and principal at a co-educational school in Lammi. In 1932 she transferred to the Department of Chemistry at the University of Helsinki, where she held an assistantship until 1947. In 1939 she worked for some months with the renowned German chemist E. Huckel in Breslau. Eskola took care to establish connections with foreign colleagues and she attended numerous international conferences. During the war she was employed by the Finnish pharmaceutical company Orion. Eskola's doctoral dissertation (1944) focussed on the ester condensation of ketonic acids, which remained her principal area of research throughout her career. In 1972 she was granted the title of Professor.