Mathematician: Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright

Born: Dec 17, 1900 in Aynho, Northamptonshire, England. Died: 3, April 1998

Mary Cartwright graduated from Oxford in 1923; taught 4 years in schools before reading for her D.Phil. Appointed Lecturer in Mathematics at Cambridge University in 1935, as a Reader in the Theory of Functions 1959-1968, wrote more than 50 papers in this mathematical subject.
Elected in 1947 to the Royal Society. Received many other honours including, in 1964, the Royal Society Sylvester Medal (named for the great 19th century algebraist, Joseph Sylvester), with the comment:
... in recognition of her distinguished contributions to analysis and the theory of functions of a real and complex variable.
She also received, in 1968, the London Mathematical Society De Morgan Medal (named for the 19th century logician-algebraist, Augustus De Morgan.