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Grace Chisholm Young (née Chisholm, 15 March 1868 – 29 March 1944) was an English mathematician. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, England and continued her studies at Göttingen University in Germany, where in 1895 she received a doctorate. [1]
Grace Chisholm Young was an English mathematician who together with her husband William Young wrote many mathematical articles and several books.
Grace Chisholm Young was an English mathematician. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, England and continued her studies at Göttingen University in Germany, where in 1895 she became the first woman to receive a doctorate in any field in that country.
March 15, 1868 - March 29, 1944. Grace Chisholm Young was born on March 15, 1868, near London, England. She was the youngest of three surviving children. Her father was Warden of the Standards in the British government, in charge of the department of weights and measures.
At age 27, Grace Chisholm Young became the first woman in the history of Germany to receive a formal doctorate in any field. Graduating magna cum laude, she recalled that after her oral examination she "used the occasion to execute a war dance of triumph.
GRACE CHISHOLM was the second woman in the history of mathematics in Germany to obtain a doctorate. Unlike SOFIA KOVALEVSKAJA, who was awarded her doctorate in absentia in 1874, she had to face an examination colloquium with several professors from different disciplines. GRACE CHISHOLM would have liked to continue her research work in Göttingen.
Born on 15 March 1868 near London, Grace Chisholm Young was an English mathematician and the first woman to receive a PhD in Germany. As a child, Young received no formal education, but rather was educated at home by her parents.
Grace Emily Chisholm Young. 1868-1944. British Mathematician. Several years before Emmy Noether (1882-1935) entered the University of Göttingen, Grace Chisholm Young earned her doctorate there in 1895, becoming the first woman to officially receive a Ph.D. in any field from a German university. Later, she conducted research in derivatives of ...
When Grace Chisholm, at age 28, married the mathematician William Henry Young, she had every prospect of a brilliant career before her.
Grace Chisholm Young (March 15, 1868 – March 29, 1944) and William Henry Young (October 20, 1863 – July 7, 1942) formed an exceptional mathematical partnership that produced some 220 mathematical articles, several books and six children. Born in Haslemere, England, Grace Chisholm was taught at home by a governess until age 17. Chisholm’s ...