B Elbert Another Forgotten Woman who helped advance Science

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TL;DR Summary

Elbert predicted when planets will get a magnetic field among other things.

https://www.eurasiareview.com/18092...-the-nobel-prize-now-the-spotlight-is-on-her/

 

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Here's a related writeup on Donna Elbert from UCLA:

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/female-math-whiz-predictions-get-credit-in-new-research

 

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Here's the Royal Society paper mentioned in the articles naming her discovery after her.

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspa.2022.0313

It includes photos and details of her life and work with Prof Chandrasekhar.

 

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As an aside, Chandrasekhar had a rough time in physics when his paper outlining the Chandrasekhar limit was viciously attacked by Eddington until Chandrasekhar gained enough support to topple Eddington's arguments using Eddington's own methods.

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Chandrasekhar_Eddington/

Once Chandrasekhar completed his book on Stellar Structure in 1939 he moved on to other fields of physics, a pattern he repeated through out life.