Background
Marie Boas was born in Springfield, Massachusetts.
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Marie Hall
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She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1940 and got her Doctor of Philosophy from Cornell University in 1949.
Career
During World World War II, she worked "in the Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she assisted Henry Guerlac in writing the history of the laboratory and of the operational use of radar during the war."
Marie Boas went to England from the United States, "to work on Robert Boyle"s papers, and met Hall, who was working on Isaac Newton"son Two years later they went to Indiana University. In 1963 they were invited back to London, to Imperial College, where Hall became the first professor of the history of science and she senior lecturer.
There they trained many graduate students."
Her older brother was mathematician Ralph P. Boas, Junior.
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Membership
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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United Kingdom