Beryl May Dent
✓ Source-basedrisingEnglish mathematical physicist (1900-1977)
Beryl May Dent was an English mathematical physicist, technical librarian, and a programmer of early analogue and digital computers to solve electrical engineering problems. She was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, the eldest daughter of schoolteachers.
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Dent's father, Eustace Edward, photographed at Warminster County School in 1926
The family lived at Boreham Road before moving in 1907 to 22 Portway, Warminster
Former Warminster County School, where Dent's father was head teacher
Paul Dirac, Dent's fellow student on the honours course in mathematics at Bristol
In 1923, Dent was accepted as a postgraduate research student by at Newnham College, University of Cambridge
The former High School for Girls, Barnsley, where Dent taught mathematics after leaving Newnham College
John Edward Lennard‑Jones, Dent's advisor and co-author at Bristol in the 1920sScientists from United Kingdom 6
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Beryl May Dent was an English mathematical physicist, technical librarian, and a programmer of early analogue and digital computers to solve electrical engineering problems. She was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, the eldest daughter of schoolteachers. The family left Chippenham in 1901, after her father became head teacher of the then recently established Warminster County School. In 1923, she graduated from the University of Bristol with First Class Honours in applied mathematics. She was awarded the Ashworth Hallett scholarship by the university and was accepted as a postgraduate student at Newnham College, Cambridge.
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