Madge Adam
Madge Gertrude Adam was an English solar astronomer.Early life and education
Adam was born near Highbury in London, where her father was a teacher at Drayton Park School. After he was killed in action during World War I in 1918 she and her siblings and mother moved to Yorkshire to live with her mother's parents. At the age of nine she spent a year at the Liverpool Open-Air Hospital, having developed skeletal tuberculosis of an elbow and rickets. She won a scholarship to Doncaster High School in South Yorkshire, and then gained an MA from St Hugh's College, Oxford and a D.Phil. from Lady Margaret Hall.Career
She was "internationally known for her work on the nature of sunspots and on their magnetic fields." She was a lecturer at the University of Oxford in the Department of Astrophysics from 1937-1979, and was a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
