Inge Trott obituary

The redoubtable Inge Trott, who has died aged 94, arrived in Britain in December 1938 as Inge Kompfner, a young Jewish refugee from Nazi-controlled Austria, and went on to devote much of her life to helping those she considered to be worse off than her.

In the 1950s, she worked as a laboratory assistant at King's College London, working with Professor Maurice Wilkins, who would later share a Nobel prize with Francis Crick and James Watson. Occasionally she delivered sperm samples to Cambridge by train, only later appreciating the enormity of the work in which she was involved. It was at King's that she met her future husband, Nigel Trott, a nuclear physicist.