Sheila Scott Macintyre
Sheila Scott Macintyre (
1910-
1960) was a
mathematician whose first
paper, on the asymptotic periods of
integral functions, was
published in
1935. She worked as an assistant
lecturer at
Aberdeen University; and, by
1958, was a visiting professor of the University of Cincinnati. In
1958, she became a
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Macintyre is, perhaps, best known for creating a
multilingual scientific dictionary:
written in
English,
German, and
Russian; at the time of her death, she was working on
Japanese.
Education
Macintyre attended the Edinburgh Ladies College (1926-28) and graduated, in 1932, from the University of Edinburgh. She also studied at Girton College. Macintyre received her Ph.D, from Aberdeen, in 1947; her thesis was entitled: Some problems in interpolatory function theory
Family
Macintyre married Archibald James Macintyre (1940) and they had two children: Alister William Macintyre and Susan Cantey.