Madge Adam

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Madge Adam

Physics

#2561

World Rank

#3762

Historical Rank

Astrophysics

#386

World Rank

#425

Historical Rank

Astronomy

#616

World Rank

#1112

Historical Rank

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Why Is Madge Adam Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Madge Gertrude Adam was an English solar astronomer who was the first postgraduate student in solar physics at the University of Oxford observatory. Early life and education Adam was born the youngest of three children near Highbury, North London, where her father was a teacher at Drayton Park School. With the start of World War I, he enlisted and was killed in action at Ypres in 1918 causing her mother and siblings to relocate to Yorkshire to live with her mother's parents. She became ill at the age of nine and spent a year at the Liverpool Open-Air Hospital to treat her skeletal tuberculosis of an elbow and rickets.

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What Schools Are Affiliated With Madge Adam?

Madge Adam is affiliated with the following schools:

• University of Oxford