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Amy Ogle – Maxwell’s first female undergraduate student

SOBEL FALCONER describes the remarkable story of Amy Ogle, a truly pioneering women student who died tragically young. ‘My best man is Ogle,’ declared an examiner for Cambridge’s Natural Sciences Tripos, in 1876. He was unaware that ‘Ogle’ was a woman. 1 Amy Ogle (1848–1878) came top in the Natural Sciences Tripos (NST) 14...