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Grace Chisholm Young

1868 - 1944

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Grace Chisholm Young (née Chisholm, 15 March 1868 – 29 March 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 received a doctorate. 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 for Mathematics by Girton College. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Grace Chisholm Young is the 777th most popular mathematician (up from 801st in 2019), the 3,939th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,064th in 2019) and the 83rd most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Grace Chisholm Young ranks 777 out of 1,004. Before her are Hans Lewy, Francesco Brioschi, Sergey Mergelyan, Spiru Haret, Christoph Gudermann, and Jacques-Louis Lions. After her are Leo Königsberger, Kenkichi Iwasawa, E. T. Whittaker, Nikolai Chebotaryov, Yuri Linnik, and Frank Morley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Grace Chisholm Young ranks 172. Before her are Reynold A. Nicholson, Ladislaus Bortkiewicz, Charles Wallace Richmond, John Sealy Townsend, Albert William Herre, and Kenjirō Tokutomi. After her are Guy de la Chapelle, Achille Paroche, Paul Warburg, Heinrich Held, Granville Bantock, and Kitamura Tokoku. Among people deceased in 1944, Grace Chisholm Young ranks 259. Before her are C. V. Boys, Wendell Willkie, Robert Curry, Leon Kozłowski, Pierre Brossolette, and E. O. Plauen. After her are Chandramukhi Basu, Han Yong-un, Charles Marion, Arthur Smith Woodward, Tatyana Makarova, and Rudolf Harbig.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Grace Chisholm Young ranks 3,940 out of 8,785. Before her are Fay Weldon (1931), David MacMillan (1968), Ian Abercrombie (1934), Henry Daniell (1894), Peter Whitehead (1914), and Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer (1897). After her are Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet (1628), Robert Lindsay (1890), Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903), Michael Winner (1935), Billy Hughes (1862), and Ælfric of Eynsham (955).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Grace Chisholm Young ranks 83. Before her are Max Newman (1897), William Hopkins (1793), Thomas Digges (1546), Simon Donaldson (1957), Charles Howard Hinton (1853), and John Lennox (1943). After her are E. T. Whittaker (1873), Frank Morley (1860), David Gregory (1659), Horace Lamb (1849), Mary Everest Boole (1832), and William Henry Young (1863).

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