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44: 270:. In 1949 she became Director of Studies for Mathematics at Girton, a position she held until 1969. In this role she supported and developed the teaching of mathematics to women. She held a variety of positions at the College including Vice-Mistress from 1966 to 1969. 266:(then the Royal College of Science), London in the 1930s. She returned to Girton College in 1938 as a mathematics lecturer and Fellow of the College. She continued her research into quantum theory, but also expanded her work to include 313:
In 2016 the Council of the University of Cambridge approved the use of Swirles's name to mark Swirles Court, which consists of 325 graduate student rooms, leased by Girton College, within the
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Blaxley (born around 1873), a primary school teacher, and William Alexander Swirles (b. 1878), a leather salesman. She went to
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Out of the Shadows: Contributions of Twentieth-Century Women to Physics
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Reminiscences and Discoveries: Harold Jeffreys from 1891 to 1940
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She enjoyed music and was an accomplished pianist and cellist.
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and Gary Williams, 498 p. (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
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Sir Harold Jeffreys and Bertha Swirles (Lady Jeffreys),
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becoming Lady Jeffreys when he was knighted in 1953.
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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society
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Bertha Jeffreys
Black and white portrait photograph of Berth Swirles take in 1962. She is wear a jacket, blouse, a necklaces and spectacles. She is smiling.
Northampton
Girton College, University of Cambridge
Harold Jeffreys
Quantum physics
Mathematics education
Girton College, University of Cambridge
Doctoral advisor
Max Born
Ralph Howard Fowler
quantum theory
Girton College
University of Cambridge
Northampton
Northampton School for Girls
matriculated
Girton College
mathematics
first
Ralph Fowler
University of Cambridge
Paul Dirac
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
University of Göttingen
Max Born
Werner Heisenberg
PhD
Assistant Lecturer
University of Manchester

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