Rosa Margaret Morris | |
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Born | Rogerstone, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom | 16 July 1914
Died | 15 October 2011 | (aged 97)
Education | University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Awards | University of Wales Fellowship Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Senior Research Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Applied mathematics |
Institutions | University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff |
Thesis | Two-dimensional potential theory, with special reference to aerodynamic problems (1940) |
Doctoral advisors | George Henry Livens Geoffrey Ingram Taylor |
Doctoral students | David Edmunds |
Rosa Margaret Morris (16 July 1914 – 15 October 2011)[1] was a Welsh applied mathematician, working in potential theory and aerodynamics. When she was 23, her research and examination results made national news. In her later career, she taught at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire (now Cardiff University), where she co-authored a successful textbook on Mathematical Methods of Physics and became one of the first female Heads of School of Mathematics in the United Kingdom.