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Cartwright, Mary. Mary Cartwright (1900-1998)
| Mary CARTWRIGHT Approx. lifespan: 19001998 Mistress: Girton College 1949-68 Mary Cartwright studied Mathematics at St Hugh's College, Oxford (1919-23), and was awarded her PhD in 1930. In the same year she was elected to a Yarrow Research Fellowship at Girton. The rest of her working life was in Cambridge. At Girton she was Fellow and Lecturer in Mathematics 1934-49; Director of Studies in Mathematics and Mechanical Sciences 1926-49; Mistress 1949-68 and Life Fellow 1968-1998. She also held a number of University positions, including Emeritus Reader from 1968. She was president of The Cambridge Association of University Women, and chair of the Cambridge University Women's Appointments Board. She was awarded a number of honorary degrees from British universities, was elected to the fellowship of the Royal Society in 1947 (becoming the first woman to serve on its council), and was created DBE in 1969. From the mid-1930s she was considered one of the country's leading mathematical analysts. Her work was groundbreaking, and she made important contributions to the fields of conformal mapping, cluster sets and chaos theory. After retiring from Girton in 1968, she worked at universities in England, America and Poland. |