The basics
Quick facts
Intro
Mathematician
Gender:
Female
Work field:
Birth:
24 July 1923
Death:
24 March 1956
The details
Biography
Introduction
Christine Mary Hamill (July 24, 1923 – March 24, 1956) was an English mathematician who specialized in group theory and finite geometry.
Education
Hamill attended St Paul's Girls' School and the Perse School for Girls. In 1942, she won a scholarship to Newnham College, Cambridge, became a wrangler in 1945.
Career
After receiving her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1951, she was appointed to a lectureship in the University of Sheffield. In 1954, she was appointed lecturer in the University College, Ibadan, Nigeria where she died of polio in 1956, four months before she was to have married.