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Such was the strength of their friendship that Marie Curie presented Ayrton with an author’s presentation copy of her 1903 thesis with the dedication, ‘A Madame Hertha Ayrton / Hommage d’une sympathie tres sincere / M. Curie’ (‘To Madame Hertha Ayrton/ in truly sincere homage / M.Curie’), now held by the IET library and archives.
Hertha Ayrton showed that the major problems were caused by oxidation of the carbon anode at its tip. The hissing was due to air rushing in, enlarging the crater and promoting unstable conditions. She achieved the reproducible conditions that had eluded other experimenters by shaping the ends to prevent oxidation, and by careful control.
Hertha Marks Ayrton was a distinguished British mathematician, electrical engineer, and inventor, known for her work on mathematical dividers, electric arcs, and the propulsion of air. Ayrton was the first woman to be recommended for fellowship of the British Royal Society, but her candidacy was denied on the grounds that as a married woman she had no legal existence in British law.
Jan 28, 2016 · Hertha Ayrton was a prominent mathematician and the first woman to be elected to the Institution of Electrical Engineers, the British counterpart to the IEEE. Ayrton was born Phoebe Sarah Marks in Portsea, England. Her father, a Polish-Jewish immigrant, ran a small jewelry and clock business, but when he died in 1861 he left little to his wife ...
Apr 28, 2020 · Dr Elizabeth Bruton explores the life of British physicist Hertha Ayrton who was born on this day in 1854. Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) was a British suffragist, physicist, Portrait of Hertha Ayrton, Girton College, University of Cambridge; Supplied by The Public Catalogue Foundation. mathematician and inventor in a time when few women had access ...
Hertha married Will Ayrton, a widower, on May 6, 1885, taking on the role of step-mother to his four-year-old daughter, Edith. Edith (who married Israel Zangwill) wrote a novel, The Call (1924), which was a fictionalized version of the suffragette campaigns, with a woman scientist as heroine. Hertha’s own daughter was born in 1886, named ...
Hertha Ayrton was born Phoebe Sarah Marks in Portsea, Hampshire, England, on 28 April 1854. She was the third child of a Polish Jewish watchmaker named Levi Marks, an immigrant from Tsarist Poland; and Alice Theresa Moss, a seamstress, the daughter of Joseph Moss, a glass merchant of Portsea. Her father died in 1861, leaving Sarah's mother with ...
