Grace Chisholm Young

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Grace Chisholm Young (March 15, 1868 - March 29, 1944) was an English mathematician. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, England and continued her studies at Göttingen University in Germany, where in 1895 she became the first woman to receive a doctorate in any field in that country. Her early writings were published under the name of her husband, William Henry Young, and they collaborated on mathematical work throughout their lives. For her work on calculus (1914-16), she was awarded the Gamble Prize.

Her son, Laurence Chisholm Young, was also a prominent mathematician. She also has a living granddaughter, Sylvia Wiegand.

[edit] External links

• O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “Grace Chisholm Young”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive 
• Biography at the Biographies of Women Mathematicians web site
• University of Liverpool: Papers of Professor William Henry Young and Grace Chisholm Young