Beatrice Tinsley

Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley (27 January 1941 – 23 March 1981) was a British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow and die. Quotes The University of Texas in Dallas has kept me at the nearest possible level to nothing. The Global Life of New Zealanders Pure math is rather a farce … physics is really super. My daughter Beatrice : a personal memoir of Dr. Beatrice Tinsley, astronomer, Edward Hill 1986 External links Category:Women academics from New Zealand Category:Cosmologists Category:1941 births Category:1981 deaths Category:Yale University faculty Category:Women scientists from New Zealand Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:Astronomers from New Zealand