Marie-Louise Von Franz
JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGIST (1915 - 1998)
Franz earned her doctorate in philology at the
University of Zurich, at a time when women
were not encouraged to participate in higher
education. From 1934 onwards she worked
closely with Carl Jung, particularly in alchemy,
and her insightful biography on him was
translated into 23 languages. She wrote more
than 20 books on analytical psychology, most
notably on fairy tales as they relate to
archetypal and depth psychology. She
amplified the themes and characters of these
tales and focused on subjects such as the
problem of evil and the changing attitude
towards the female archetype. In von Franz's
view, fairytales are the purest and most
simple expression of collective, unconscious
processes of the psyche. Within her role as
analyst, she was said to have interpreted
more than 65,000 dreams.
Cathleen Synge Morawetz
MATHEMATICS (1923 - 2017)
Morawetz obtained her undergraduate degree
in mathematics in 1943 and went on to
achieve her master's degree from the
prestigious Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1946. Her research was mainly
in the study of the partial differential equations
governing fluid flow. She published work on a
variety of topics in applied mathematics
including viscosity, compressible fluids and
transonic flows. In 1981 she became the first
woman to deliver the Gibbs Lecture of The
American Mathematical Society. In 1998 she
was awarded the prestigious National Medal
of Science, the first woman to receive this
honour for their work in mathematics. Through
her work on questions of scattering theory and
the nonlinear wave equation, she proved what
is now known as the Morawetz Inequality.
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