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Dusa McDuff FRS CorrFRSE (born 18 October ) is an English mathematician who works on symplectic geometry....
Dusa McDuff
English mathematician
Dusa McDuffFRSCorrFRSE (born 18 October 1945) is an English mathematician who works on symplectic geometry.
She was the first recipient of the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics,[4] was a Noether Lecturer, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society. She is currently the Helen Lyttle Kimmel '42 Professor of Mathematics at Barnard College.[5]
Personal life and education
Margaret Dusa Waddington was born in London, England, on 18 October 1945 to Edinburgh architect Margaret Justin Blanco White, second wife of biologistConrad Hal Waddington, her father.[6] Her sister is the anthropologist Caroline Humphrey, and she has an elder half-brother C.
Jake Waddington by her father's first marriage.
Together with Dietmar Salamon, she has written several foundational books on symplectic topology as well as many research articles.Her mother was the daughter of Amber Reeves, the noted feminist, author and lover of H. G. Wells. McDuff grew up in Scotland where her father was Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. McDuff was educated at St Ge