Journal of Women's History

Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 1995

E-ISSN: 1527-2036 Print ISSN: 1042-7961

DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2010.0322

James J. Tattersall
Shawnee L. McMurran
Hertha Ayrton: A Persistent Experimenter
Journal of Women's History - Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 1995, pp. 86-112

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Project MUSE - Journal of Women's History - Hertha Ayrton: A Persistent Experimenter Project MUSE Journals Journal of Women's History Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 1995 Hertha Ayrton: A Persistent Experimenter Journal of Women's History Volume 7, Number 2, Summer 1995 E-ISSN: 1527-2036 Print ISSN: 1042-7961 Hertha Ayrton:A Persistent Experimenter James J. Tattersall and Shawnee L. McMurran James J. Tattersall James J. Tattersall is a professor of mathematics at Providence College, where he has taught since 1969. He is currently visiting professor of mathematics at the United States Military Academy at West Point. His current research is on the early Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University. Shawnee L. McMurran Shawnee L. McMurran is an assistant professor of mathematics at Providence College. She was educated at the University of California at Riverside. Her background is in partial differential equations and her current research interest is in the collaborative works of the Cambridge mathematicians Dame Mary Cartwright, F.R.S., and J. E. Littlewood, F.R.S. Footnotes * From this point in the text, Hertha Marks will be referred to as "Ayrton" or "Hertha Ayrton," since after her marriage she used this name. Notes The authors wish to thank Kate Perry, Archivist at Girton College, Cambridge; Alan Clark, Deputy Librarian of The Royal Society of London; Kevin Johnson of the National Museum of Science and Industry, London; Joan Mason of...