# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/beatrice-helen-worsley
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:25:23.926Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/beatrice-helen-worsley"
name: "Beatrice Helen Worsley"
slug: "beatrice-helen-worsley"
description: "Beatrice Helen Worsley, better known as \"Trixie\" Worsely, was a Canadian computer scientist, the first woman in the country to work in that profession. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge with Douglas Hartree as adviser, also with advice from Alan Turing, one of the earliest Ph.D.s to be granted in what would today be known as computer science, in parallel with David Wheeler's Ph.D. studies at Cambridge under Maurice Wilkes. She wrote the first program to run on EDSAC, co-wrote the first compiler for Toronto's Ferranti Mark 1, wrote numerous papers in computer science, and taught computers and engineering at Queen's University and the University of Toronto for over 20 years before her death at the early age of 50."
tagline: "First female computer scientist in Canada (1922-1972)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
birthDate: "1921-10-18"
deathDate: "1972-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.18
  momentum:             10.41558958043349
  historical:           7.229232
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  35
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D1%96%D1%81_%D0%92%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BB%D1%96"
    title: "Беатріс Ворслі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "بياتريس ورسلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%89"
    title: "بياتريس ورسلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Worsley"
    title: "Beatrice Worsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Worsley"
    title: "Beatrice Worsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Worsley"
    title: "Beatrice Worsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Worsley"
    title: "Beatrice Worsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatrice_Worsley"
    title: "Beatrice Worsley"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16493"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump