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Emmy Noether
(* March 23rd 1882 in Erlangen, † April 14th 1935 in Bryn Mawr, USA)
Life
In 1933 her mathematical achievements counted for nothing when the Nazis caused her dismissal from the University of Göttingen because she was Jewish. She accepted a visiting professorship at Bryn Mawr College in the USA and also lectured at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton in the USA.