Beatrice Worsley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Beatrice Worsley

First female computer scientist in Canada

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1922

Place of Birth: Querétaro, Mexico

Date of Death: 08-May-1972

Profession: computer scientist

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Beatrice "Trixie" Helen Worsley (18 October 1921 – 8 May 1972) was the first female computer scientist in Canada.
She received her Ph.D.
degree from the University of Cambridge with Alan Turing and Douglas Hartree as advisers, the first Ph.D granted in what would today be known as computer science.
She wrote the first program to run on EDSAC, co-wrote the first compiler for Toronto's Ferranti Mark 1, wrote numerous papers in computer science, and taught computers and engineering at Queen's University and the University of Toronto for over 20 years before her untimely death at the age of 50.