Käte Fenchel
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German mathematician
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Käte Fenchel's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics University of Göttingen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Käte Fenchel née Käte Sperling was a German-born Jewish mathematician, best known for her work on non-abelian groups. Life Käte was born in Berlin to a newspaper reporter and a bookkeeper, Rusza Sperling . As a child, she quickly learned to read and write, faster than most children. She was allowed to skip several grade levels and was awarded scholarships to attend private school. She enrolled at the University of Berlin, but she found that she faced daunting obstacles there in the form of gender discrimination because she was pursuing studies in pure mathematics. She was encouraged to write a thesis, but she never obtained the doctorate.
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