Jessie Cameron

Jessie Forbes Cameron (born January 8, 1883 in Stanley , Scotland , † March 27, 1968 in Southwold ) was a British mathematician who was the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics at Marburg University in 1912 .

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Jessie Cameron was born to James Cameron, principal of a village school, and his wife Jessie Forbes as one of eight children.

After attending the Perth Academy, Jessie Cameron studied four semesters at the University of Edinburgh . The following years (1905-1908) she spent studying mathematics at Newnham College of Cambridge University . She graduated as one of the best of the year with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). For the following summer semester in 1909 and winter semester in 1909/10, Cameron moved to the University of Göttingen . Here she attended lectures by Felix Bernstein , David Hilbert , Edmund Landau , Karl Schwarzschild and Woldemar Voigt, among others . She then continued her studies for three semesters at the University of Marburg. She heard lectures by Wilhelm Feussner , Ernst Hellinger , Kurt Hensel , Paul Natorp , Franz Richarz and Franz Arthur Schulze . Under the supervision of Kurt Hensel, Cameron completed her dissertation "On the decomposition of a prime number in a composed body". The work was accepted as a dissertation on November 20, 1911, rated opus valde laudabile as a “very commendable work” and published in 1912. After her doctorate, Cameron returned from 1912 to 1913 as an "Assistant Lecturer" at Newnham College in Cambridge.

On September 28, 1912, Cameron married the lawyer Edward Vincent Thompson and gave birth to a daughter and two sons. Cameron continued to work at Newnham College until 1927. During the First World War the family withdrew to Berkhamsted, where Cameron began to get involved in the "National Council of Women". Jessie Cameron died in Southwold at the age of 85.

literature

Cameron, Jessie Forbes. In: Newnham College Register, Vol. 1, 1905, pages 184-185.
Francesca M. Wilson: Jessie Forbes Thompson (nee Cameron), 1883-1968 (Newnham 1905-09 and 1912-13). In: Newnham College Roll Letter, Cambridge 1969, pages 63-64.
Jessie Forbes Cameron: On the decomposition of a prime number in a composed body. Marburg 1912, curriculum vitae page 39. ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Renate Tobies (Ed.): "All male culture in spite of". Women in math and science . With a foreword by Knut Radbruch . Campus, Frankfurt a. M./New York 1997, ISBN 3-593-35749-6 , pp. 137 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - footnote 19).

personal data
SURNAME	Cameron, Jessie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cameron, Jessie Forbes (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stanley , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH	March 27, 1968
Place of death	Southwold

[1] Renate Tobies (Ed.): "All male culture in spite of". Women in math and science . With a foreword by Knut Radbruch . Campus, Frankfurt a. M./New York 1997, ISBN 3-593-35749-6 , pp. 137 ( limited preview in Google Book Search - footnote 19).