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Alice Everett

was born 159 years ago

15 May 1865

Alice Everett was a mathematician and astronomer who studied the mathematical tripos at Girton College, worked at the Royal Observatory Greenwich and then at the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory. She had a second career working on optics at the National Physical Laboratory. Her final career was working on the early developments of television broadcasting.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Everett/