About Nora Calderwood
Lived 1896 – 1985 (aged 88–89). Nora Calderwood was a British mathematician and university teacher.
Nora Isobel Calderwood (14 March 1896 – April 1985) was a Scottish professor and mathematician.
Early life and education Calderwood was born in 1896 in Blairgowrie, Perthshire, in Scotland. Her father Daniel Scott Calderwood was the headmaster of the Blairgowrie Public School. Her family then moved to Edinburgh when she was still young, after her father was appointed as the headmaster of the Church of Scotland Normal School.
Calderwood started at James Gillespie's School in 1901, at the age of five, staying for six years. On receiving a bursary from the Edinburgh Burgh Committee on Secondary Education, she studied at Edinburgh Ladies' College from 1907 to 1914.
Career and research Calderwood was a member of Edinburgh Mathematical Society joined in 1919 as an undergraduate, and the London Mathematical Society, joined in 1922.
Awards and honours Hers is the namesake for the Calderwood Prize, an academic award at the University of Birmingham.
Personal life Calderwood never married. She was an accomplished piano player, and gave recitals at Birmingham.
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Scottish mathematician and professor
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Nora Calderwood was born on 14 March 1896 in Blairgowrie.
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Nora Calderwood died in 1985 in Selly Oak.
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Nora Calderwood was a mathematician and university teacher.
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