Jessie Forbes Cameron

Jessie Forbes Cameron
Born8 January 1883
Stanley, Scotland
Died27 March 1968 (1968-03-28) (aged 85)
Southwold, England
Other namesJessie Forbes Thompson
Alma materUniversity of Marburg
OccupationMathematician
SpouseEdward Vincent Thompson
Children3

Jessie Forbes Cameron (1883 – 1968) was a British mathematician who in 1912 became the first woman to complete her doctorate in mathematics at the University of Marburg in Germany.[1]

  1. ^ Lorch-Göllner, Silke (1 March 2018). "Die "mutvoll Trotzigen": Die ersten Mathematikstudentinnen der Königlich Preußischen Universität Marburg". Mathematische Semesterberichte (in German). 65 (1): 35–64. doi:10.1007/s00591-017-0211-6. ISSN 1432-1815. S2CID 126315878.

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