Elizabeth McHarg
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Scottish mathematician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elizabeth Adam McHarg was a Scottish mathematician who in 1965 became the first female president of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. Education McHarg studied at the Glasgow High School for Girls and then the University of Glasgow, earning a master's degree with first class honours in mathematics and natural philosophy in 1943. The university awarded her the Thomas Logan Medal and a George A Clark scholarship, funding her as a researcher at Girton College, Cambridge. At Girton, she studied nonlinear partial differential equationss with Mary Cartwright, and completed her Ph.D. in 1948.
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