Mathematician:Hertha Marks Ayrton

Mathematician

British engineer, mathematician, physicist, and inventor.

Awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripples in sand and water.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 28 April 1854 in Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
• Died: 23 August 1923 in Bexhill-on-sea, Sussex, UK

Also known as

Hertha Marks Ayrton was born Phoebe Sarah Marks.

She adopted the name Hertha after the heroine of a poem by Swinburne.

She took the name Ayrton on her marriage to William Edward Ayrton.

Subsequently, she used the name Hertha Ayrton as her professional name.