Muriel Wales was born in Northern Ireland but lived in Canada from the age of one. In 1941 she was awarded a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Toronto. She worked at the Montreal Laboratory of the National Research Council of Canada but from 1950 worked as a claims agent for her step-father's shipping company.
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