Bertha Swirles

Bertha Swirles
Nascimento	22 de abril de 1903 Northampton
Morte	18 de dezembro de 1999 (96 anos)
Nacionalidade	Inglesa
Orientador(es)(as)	Max Born, Ralph Howard Fowler
Instituições	Universidade de Cambridge
Campo(s)	Física
Tese	1929: Some Applications Of The Theory Of Perturbations In Quantum Mechanics

Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys (Northampton, 22 de maio de 1903 — 18 de dezembro de 1999), foi uma física inglesa.

Pesquisou sobre mecânica quântica, particularmente em seus primórdios. Foi associada do Girton College, Universidade de Cambridge, como estudante e membro, durante mais de 70 anos.

Bertha Swirles nasceu em Northampton, e frequentou a Northampton School for Girls, seguindo em 1921 para o Girton College, graduando-se em matemática. Obteve o doutorado em 1929, orientada por Max Born e Ralph Howard Fowler. Casou com Harold Jeffreys em 1940, tornando-se Lady Jeffreys após ter sido condecorada pelo império britânico em 1953.

Publicações selecionadas

• Bertha Swirles, The internal conversion of $\gamma$-rays, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 116, No. 774, pp. 491-500 (1927). [1] This paper dates from the time when Bertha Swirles was Yarrow Research Student at Girton College.
• Bertha Swirles, The internal conversion of Gamma-rays. — Part II, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 121, No. 787, pp. 447-456 (1928). [2] This paper dates from the time when Bertha Swirles was Hertha Ayrton Research Fellow at Girton College.
• Bertha Swirles, The coefficients of absorption and opacity of a partially degenerate gas, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 141, No. 845, pp. 554-566 (1933). [3]
• Bertha Swirles, The relativistic self-consistent field, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 152, No. 877, pp. 625-649 (1935). [4]
• Bertha Swirles, The relativistic interaction of two electrons in the self-consistent field method, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 157, No. 892, pp. 680-696 (1936). [5]
• D. R. Hartree, W. Hartree, and Bertha Swirles, Self-consistent field, including exchange and superposition of configurations, with some results for Oxygen, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series A, Vol. 238, No. 790, pp. 229-247 (1939). [6]

Livro

• Sir Harold Jeffreys and Bertha Swirles (Lady Jeffreys), Methods of Mathematical Physics, third revised edition (Cambridge University Press, 1956 — reprinted 1999). This book, first published in 1946, is commonly referred to as Jeffreys & Jeffreys. ISBN 0-521-66402-0, ISBN 978-0-521-66402-8.

Alguns esboços biográficos por Bertha Swirles

• Bertha Swirles, John Arthur Gaunt (1904-1944), Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 73-79 (1990). [7]
• Bertha Swirles, Reminiscences and Discoveries: Harold Jeffreys from 1891 to 1940, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 301-308 (1992). [8]

Obituários

• R. M. Williams, Obituary: Bertha Jeffreys, The Independent (London), Wednesday, 22 December 1999. [9], [10]
• Mary Walmsley, Lady Jeffreys 1903-1999, The Mathematical Gazette, Vol. 84, No. 500, pp. 321-323 (2000). [11]
• J. A. Hudson, Lady Bertha Swirles, 1903-1999, Astronomy & Geophysics, Vol. 41, No. 3. 36-37 (2000). [12]

Ligações externas

• Bertha Swirles (em inglês) no Mathematics Genealogy Project
• CWP at UCLA: Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys
• The papers of Bertha Swirles (Lady Jeffreys) have just been processed by the NCUACS, Bath, England [13]
• Portrait by Julia Hedgecoe, 19 March 1998, National Portrait Gallery, London.