Dear all,
The Royal Astronomical Society is making plans to celebrate
the centenary next year of the first admission of women as
Fellows (members). The committee asked me for help to
identify the first woman geophysicist to be accepted as
a Fellow, since the records list only names, not the women's
specialities or other affiliations.
I am emailing to ask if people on this list can help, by
thinking of the names of female geophysicists from the
19-teens, twenties and thirties who might have been
Fellows. We can then look them up and see if they were
or not. I could think of only Inge Lehmann and Bertha
(wife of Harold) Jeffreys, but surely people on this list
can do better.
Thanks!
Sheila Peacock,
member of RAS Council.
PS the plans for the centenary are exciting - look out for
their fruition in future RAS communications.
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