June Barrow-Green (born 1953) is a professor of History of Mathematics at the

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and a visiting professor at the

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Education

Barrow-Green obtained a BSc Hons in Mathematics in 1986 and an MSc in Mathematical Physics in 1989, both from

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. In 1993 she gained a PhD in mathematics from the

, under supervision of

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, on ''Poincaré and the Three Body Problem''.

Career

From 1993 to the present Barrow-Green has worked at the Open University, receiving a professorship in 2015. From 2003 to 2005 she was president of the

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. From 2007 to 2018 she was an elected member of the Council of the

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and during that period she served as the Librarian for the society. In 2014 Barrow-Green was awarded the first Chandler Davis Prize for Expository Excellence for her article ''An American Goes to Europe: Three Letters from Oswald Veblen to George Birkhoff in 1913/1914'' in

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. In 2018 she took part in a discussion panel on ''The Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences from a Historical Perspective'' at the

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2018, Rio de Janeiro, which was chaired by the English mathematician

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and also featured the French mathematician

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and the Argentine physicist Silvina Ponce Dawson. She chairs the executive committee of the

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. In August 2021

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awarded her its Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar medal "for her research in 19th & 20th century mathematics, with emphasis on the underrepresentation of women in historical narratives & contemporary mathematics".

Selected publications

* * * *Reviews of ''Poincaré and the three body problem'': * * * * * * *

References

External links

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's In Our Time,
Euclid's Elements
', April 2016. June Barrow-Green on the expert panel with

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and Serafina Cuomo. {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrow-Green, June British women mathematicians British women academics Academics of the Open University Living people 1953 births