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Advanced Search About Resonance Editorial Board Guidelines Subscribe Current Issue January 2005 (Contents) Back Issues	Article-in-a-Box Florence Jessie MacWilliams (1917-1990) Priti Shankar Florence Jessie MacWilliams, one of the first women to publish in coding theory was born in 1917 in Stoke-on-Trent, England. Her early college education was at Cambridge, where she obtained her BA in 1938, and her MA the following year. In 1939 she joined the famous mathematician Oscar Zariski, well known for his work in algebraic geometry, at Johns Hopkins University, following him to Harvard University to study with him for a year. There was a break in her studies for many years following her marriage in 1941 to Walter MacWilliams, an engineer, and the birth and raising of three children, two sons and a daughter. Read full article (16 Kb) Address for Correspondence Priti Shankar Department of Computer Science and Automation Indian Institute of Science Bangalore 560 012, India. Email:priti@csa.iisc.ernet.in

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