Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index 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. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.