Английская Википедия:Florence Newman Trefethen
Шаблон:Short description Florence Marion Newman Trefethen (1921–2012) was an American codebreaker, historian of operations research, poet, and English professor.
Early life and education
Florence Marion Newman was born in 1921, in Philadelphia.Шаблон:R She graduated magna cum laude from Bryn Mawr College in 1943.Шаблон:R
She enlisted as a Naval officer during World War II, and served in the WAVES as a codebreaker. She was part of the Magic project, whose decryptions of Japanese communications led to the ambush and death of Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto.Шаблон:R During this service she met Merchant Marine and later mechanical engineer Lloyd M. Trefethen;Шаблон:R they married in 1944.Шаблон:R
After the war, she came to Girton College, Cambridge on an Ottilie Hancock Bye Fellowship. She earned a Master of Letters there in 1946.Шаблон:R
Career and later life
Trefethen worked for many years as a professor of English at Tufts University,Шаблон:R and served for 18 years as executive editor for the Council of East Asian Studies at Harvard University.Шаблон:R
She and her husband had had two children, quilter Gwyned Trefethen in 1953 and mathematician Lloyd N. Trefethen in 1955.Шаблон:R She died on March 1, 2012.Шаблон:R
Books
With Joseph F. McCloskey, Trefethen edited the book Operations Research for Management (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1954).Шаблон:R She wrote the first chapter of the book, an early history of the field of operations research.Шаблон:R
She is also the author of Writing a Poem (The Writer, 1970), on the process of writing poetry.Шаблон:R
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- 1921 births
- 2012 deaths
- Bryn Mawr College alumni
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- Trefethen family
- American women academics
- WAVES personnel
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- 21st-century American women
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