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