Madge Adam

Madge Gertrude Adam (6 March 1912 – 25 August 2001) was an English solar astronomer.

Early life and education

Adam was born near Highbury in London, where her father was a teacher at Drayton Park School. After he was killed in action during World War I in 1918 she and her siblings and mother moved to Yorkshire to live with her mother's parents. At the age of nine she spent a year at the Liverpool Open-Air Hospital, having developed skeletal tuberculosis of an elbow and rickets. She won a scholarship to Doncaster High School in South Yorkshire, and then gained an MA from St Hugh's College, Oxford and a D.Phil. from Lady Margaret Hall.[1][2]

Career

She was "internationally known for her work on the nature of sunspots and on their magnetic fields."[2] She was a lecturer at the University of Oxford in the Department of Astrophysics from 1937-1979, and was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.[1]

References
  1. Haines, Catharine (2001). International women in science: a biographical dictionary to 1950. Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO. pp. 2. ISBN 1-57607-090-5. madge adam oxford.
  2. Williams, Kay (10 September 2001). "Madge Adam". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 April 2011.



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