Madge Adam
Vorlage:Use British English Vorlage:Use dmy dates Madge Gertrude Adam (6 March 1912 – 25 August 2001) was an English solar astronomer.
Early life and education
Adam was born near Highbury in London, where her father was a teacher at Drayton Park School. After he was killed in action during World War I in 1918 she and her siblings and mother moved to Yorkshire to live with her mother's parents. At the age of nine she spent a year at the Liverpool Open-Air Hospital, having developed skeletal tuberculosis of an elbow and rickets. She won a scholarship to Doncaster High School in South Yorkshire, and then gained an MA from St Hugh's College, Oxford and a D.Phil. from Lady Margaret Hall.[1][2]
Career
She was "internationally known for her work on the nature of sunspots and on their magnetic fields."[2] She was a lecturer at the University of Oxford in the Department of Astrophysics from 1937–1979, and was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.[1]
References
- ↑ a b Catharine Haines: International women in science: a biographical dictionary to 1950. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, California 2001, ISBN 1-57607-090-5, 2 (archive.org): „madge adam oxford.“
- ↑ a b Kay Williams: Madge Adam. The Guardian, 10. September 2001, abgerufen am 16. April 2011.