"Pure math is rather a farce … physics is really super."
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CosmologistsYale University facultyWomen born in the 1940sWomen academics from New ZealandWomen scientists from New Zealand
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My daughter Beatrice : a personal memoir of Dr. Beatrice Tinsley, astronomer, Edward Hill 1986
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Beatrice Tinsley
Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (27 January 1941 – 23 March 1981) was a British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow and die.
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