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Chrystal Macmillan

was born 152 years ago

13 June 1872

Chrystal Macmillan was the first female science graduate at Edinburgh University and the first female honours graduate in Mathematics. She became active in the Women's Suffrage Movement and went on to become a lawyer.

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