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Beatrice Cave-Browne-Cave

Died
  
1947


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Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave, MBE (30 May 1874 – 9 July 1947) was an English mathematician who undertook pioneering work in the mathematics of aeronautics.

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Birth and education

Beatrice Cave-Browne-Cave was the daughter of Sir Thomas Cave-Browne-Cave (1835–1924; see Cave-Browne-Cave baronets for earlier history of the family) and Blanche Matilda Mary Ann (née Milton). One of six siblings, one of her brothers was Henry Cave-Browne-Cave, a Royal Air Force officer. She was educated at home in Streatham and entered Girton College, Cambridge with her younger sister Frances in 1895. Gaining a second-class degree in the mathematical tripos, part one (1898), she took part two a year later (1899), and was placed in the third class.

Career

After eleven years teaching mathematics to girls at a high school in Clapham in south London, in the years just before the First World War she worked under Professor Karl Pearson in the Galton Laboratory at University College, London.

During World War I, she carried out original research for the government on the mathematics of aeronautics which remained classified under the Official Secrets Act for fifty years. Elected an associate fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society in 1919 and awarded an MBE in 1920, she later worked as an assistant to Sir Leonard Bairstow, the Zaharoff Professor of Aviation at Imperial College, London. She retired in 1937, continuing to live in Streatham

Death

Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave died on 9 July 1947 at age 73, unmarried.

References

Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave Wikipedia


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