Beatrice Helen Worsley, Mexican-Canadian computer scientist and academic (died 1972)

Beatrice Worsley

First female computer scientist in Canada

Beatrice Helen Worsley was a Canadian computer scientist, the first woman in the country to work in that profession. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge with Maurice Wilkes as adviser, the first Ph.D. granted in what would today be known as computer science.…