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Beatrice Tinsley

lived from 1941 to 1981

Beatrice Tinsley was an astronomer who was brought up in New Zealand. She did important work making mathematical models of galaxy evolution. She was the first woman professor of astronomy at Yale but died soon after her appointment at the age of 40.

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