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 Lady Jeffrey Obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
BERTHA SWIRLES, Lady Jeffreys, did important research on quantum theory, particularly in its early days, and her association with Girton College, Cambridge, as student and Fellow, spanned more than 70 years.
Bertha Jeffreys played a leading role in women's education this century, and she inspired students of mathematics world-wide.
Bertha Swirles, mathematician: born Northampton 22 May 1903; Fellow, Girton College, Cambridge 1938-69 (Life Fellow 1969), Director of Studies in Mathematics 1949-69, Vice-Mistress 1966-69; married 1940 Harold Jeffreys (Kt 1953, died 1989); died Cambridge 18 December 1999.
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 Harold Jeffreys Summary
In 1940 he married Bertha Swirles, a talented mathematician and a fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.
He married another mathematician and physicist, Bertha Swirles (1903-1999), in 1940 and together they wrote Methods of Mathematical Physics.
Among his other contributions was a Bayesian approach to probability (also see Jeffreys prior), and the idea that the Earth's planetary core was liquid.
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 Bertha Swirles - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bertha Swirles (Lady Jeffreys), (22 May 1903 18 December 1999) carried out research on quantum theory, particularly in its early days.
She married Harold Jeffreys in 1940, and became Lady Jeffreys upon his knighthood in 1953.
CWP at UCLA: Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys (has photograph)
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 Bertha (née Swirles), Lady Jeffreys (1903-1999), Mathematician; wife of Sir Harold Jeffreys
Bertha (née Swirles), Lady Jeffreys (1903-1999), Mathematician; wife of Sir Harold Jeffreys
Graduating in mathematics with first class Honours from Girton in 1921, Bertha Jeffreys pursued an academic career, working with many of the leading researchers in quantum mechanics (a relatively new field at the time), including Max Born and Werner Heisenberg.
After a period in Bristol, Imperial College, London, and again in Manchester as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Bertha Jeffreys returned to Cambridge (1938), to an Official Fellowship and Lectureship in Mathematics at Girton.
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Dirac lectured from third-edition proofs in 1946 and I attended a second time in 1947, with my own copy.
Mrs [Bertha Swirles] Jeffreys also gave very intelligible and useful lectures.
Lectures were not required for postgraduate students, but we went along out of interest.
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 Methods of Mathematical Physics Jeffreys, Harold/ Swirles, Bertha/ Jeffreys, Bertha Swirles- Textbook - Bookbyte.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Methods of Mathematical Physics Jeffreys, Harold/ Swirles, Bertha/ Jeffreys, Bertha Swirles- Textbook - Bookbyte.com
Methods of Mathematical Physics by Jeffreys, Harold/ Swirles, Bertha/ Jeffreys, Bertha Swirles 3RD
by Jeffreys, Harold Swirles, Bertha Jeffreys, Bertha Swirles
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 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001265472   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001265472
Publisher description for Methods of mathematical physics / by Sir Harold Jeffreys and Bertha Swirles (Lady Jeffreys).
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
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