Bertha Swirles
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Bertha Swirles (Lady Jeffreys), (22 May 1903 – 18 December 1999) carried out research on quantum theory, particularly in its early days.
She was associated with Girton College, University of Cambridge, as student and Fellow, for over 70 years.
Bertha Swirles was born in Northampton in 1903 attended Northampton School for Girls and then went up to Girton, in 1921, to read Mathematics, graduating with first class Honours. She became a research student of Ralph Fowler, one of a distinguished company of his students that included Paul Dirac and Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
She married Harold Jeffreys in 1940, and became Lady Jeffreys upon his knighthood in 1953.
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- Sir Harold Jeffreys and Bertha Swirles (Lady Jeffreys), Methods of Mathematical Physics, third revised edition (Cambridge University Press, 1956 — reprinted 1999). This book, first published in 1946, is commonly referred to as Jeffreys & Jeffreys. ISBN 0-521-66402-0, ISBN 978-0-521-66402-8.
