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Abigail Thompson

Abigail Thompson is an American mathematician who studies combinatorial methods in 3-dimensional topology.

In 1941 Muriel Wales was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Toronto. She worked at the Montreal Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada but from 1950 worked as a claims agent for her step-father’s shipping company.

Alice Lee

Alice Lee was awarded a D.Sc. in 1899, and had an outstanding career as a statistician working in both Bedford College and University College in London. Her work was important in disproving the belief that skull size was related to intelligence, the argument that was being used at that time to “prove” women were intellectually inferior to men.

Olga Oleinik

Olga Oleinik was a Ukrainian mathematician who worked on the theory of partial differential equations.

Alice Bache Gould

Alice Bache Gould was an American mathematician, philanthropist and historian, who spent much of her time in South America and Spain.

Pelageia Kochina

Pelageia Kochina was a Russian applied mathematician, known for her work on fluid mechanics and hydrodynamics.

Alice Turner Schafer

Alice Schafer was an American mathematician who was one of the founding members of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler

Anna Johnson Wheeler was an American mathematician. She is best known for early work on linear algebra in infinite dimensions, which has later become a part of functional analysis.

Anna Henriques

Anna Stafford Henriques was an American mathematician who became one of the first two women to undertake research at the Institute for Advanced Study. She worked at several universities concentrating on teaching.