Christine Hamill

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Christine Mary Hamill (born July 24, 1923 in London , England , † March 24, 1956 in Ibadan , Nigeria ) was an English mathematician and university teacher . She specialized in group theory and finite geometry .

life and work

Hamill was one of the four children of Louisa Maude and the doctor and physiologist Philip Hamill . She first studied at St. Paul's Girls School, where she received an endowment scholarship, then at the Perse School for Girls. In 1942 she received a Caroline Turle scholarship to study at Newnham College , Cambridge. In 1948 she received a Newnham Research Fellowship and did her doctorate in 1951 at the University of Cambridge with John Arthur Todd with the dissertation: 'The Finite Primitive Collineation Groups which contain Homologies of Period Two'. She published three articles based on her dissertation in 1948, 1951 and 1953. These articles describe groups of orders 576, 6531840 and 348364800, respectively. In the year of her PhD, she was offered an internship at the University of Sheffield . She did research there for four years and was promoted to lecturer in mathematics in 1952. In 1954 she accepted a position as a lecturer at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. After four terms in Ibadan, she died of poliomyelitis for 2 days and four months before she wanted to get married.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ CM Hamill: The finite primitive collineation groups which contain homologies of period two . University of Cambridge, 1951 ( bl.uk ).
personal data
SURNAME Hamill, Christine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hamill, Christine Mary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England
DATE OF DEATH March 24, 1956
Place of death Ibadan , Nigeria