June Barrow-Green

Barrow-Green obtained a BSc Hons in Mathematics in 1986 and an MSc in Mathematical Physics in 1989, both from King's College London. In 1993 she gained a PhD in mathematics from the Open University, under supervision of Jeremy Gray, on Poincaré and the Three Body Problem.{{cite thesis |last=Barrow-Green |first=June |date=June 1993 |title=Poincaré and the Three Body Problem |url=https://oro.open.ac.uk/57403/1/335423.pdf |degree=PhD |publisher=The Open University |access-date=12 May 2024}}

From 1993 to the present Barrow-Green has worked at the Open University, receiving a professorship in 2015.

From 2003 to 2005 she was president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.{{cite web|title=History of the BSHM|url=http://www.bshm.ac.uk/history-bshm|access-date=15 February 2020}}

From 2007 to 2018 she was an elected member of the Council of the London Mathematical Society and during that period she served as the Librarian for the society.{{Cite web|url=https://www.lms.ac.uk/about/council|title=Council Members|date=2 December 2015|website=LMS|access-date=29 December 2016}}

In 2014 Barrow-Green was awarded the first Chandler Davis Prize for Expository Excellence for her article An American Goes to Europe: Three Letters from Oswald Veblen to George Birkhoff in 1913/1914 in The Mathematical Intelligencer.{{Cite web|url=http://www.springer.com/mathematics?SGWID=0-10042-2-1478842-0|title=The Chandler Davis Prize for Expository Excellence|website=springer.com|language=en|access-date=11 February 2020}}

In 2018 she took part in a discussion panel on The Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences from a Historical Perspective at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018, Rio de Janeiro, which was chaired by the English mathematician Caroline Series and also featured the French mathematician Marie-Françoise Roy and the Argentine physicist Silvina Ponce Dawson.{{Cite web|url=http://www.icm2018.org/wp/2018/08/02/more-female-role-models-needed-in-mathematics/|title=More female role models needed in mathematics |publisher=ICM News|language=en-US|access-date=11 February 2020|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191211084719/http://www.icm2018.org/wp/2018/08/02/more-female-role-models-needed-in-mathematics/|archive-date=11 December 2019}}

She chairs the executive committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics.{{cite web|url=https://www.mathunion.org/ichm/about-us/members|title=Members|publisher=International Commission on the History of Mathematics|access-date=8 January 2020}}

In August 2021 The Royal Society awarded her its Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar medal "for her research in 19th & 20th century mathematics, with emphasis on the underrepresentation of women in historical narratives & contemporary mathematics".{{Cite tweet |user=royalsociety |number=1430194461141766151 |title=Professor June Barrow-Green has been awarded the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture for her research in 19th & 20th century mathematics, with emphasis on the underrepresentation of women in historical narratives & contemporary mathematics. #RSMedals |date=24 August 2021}}

• {{citation |last1=Barrow-Green|first1=June|last2=Gray|first2=Jeremy|last3=Wilson|first3=Robin|author-link2=Jeremy Gray|author3-link=Robin Wilson (mathematician)|year=2019|title=The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach: Volume 1|publisher=American Mathematical Society & Mathematical Association of America}}
• {{Citation|title=The Princeton Companion to Mathematics|publication-date=2008|editor-last=Gowers|editor-first=Timothy|publisher=Princeton University Press|editor2-last=Barrow-Green|editor2-first=June|editor3-last=Leader|editor3-first=Imre}}
• {{citation |last=Barrow-Green |first=June |year=2002 |title=Poincaré and the discovery of chaos |publisher=Icon |isbn=9781840462883}}
• {{citation |last=Barrow-Green |first=June |year=1997 |title=Poincaré and the three body problem |title-link= Poincaré and the Three-Body Problem |publisher=American Mathematical Society |series=History of mathematics, v. 11. |isbn=9780821803677}}Reviews of Poincaré and the three body problem:
• {{citation|first=R.|last=Duda|journal=zbMATH|title=none|zbl=0877.01022}}
• {{citation|title=none|journal=Mathematical Reviews|year=1997|first=Ll. G.|last=Chambers|mr=1415387}}
• {{citation|last=Vickers|first=James|date=January 1999|doi=10.1112/s0024609397313952|issue=1|journal=Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society|pages=121–123|title=none|volume=31}}
• {{citation|last=Diacu|first=Florin|author-link=Florin Diacu|date=May 1999|doi=10.1006/hmat.1999.2236|issue=2|journal=Historia Mathematica|pages=175–178|title=none|volume=26|doi-access=free}}
• {{citation|title=none|first=Jean|last=Mawhin|author1-link=Jean Mawhin |journal=Isis|volume=89|issue=2|date=June 1998|pages=345–346|jstor=237789|doi=10.1086/384034}}
• {{citation|title=none|first=Albert C.|last=Lewis|journal=The Mathematical Gazette|volume=83|issue=497|date=July 1999|page=343|doi=10.2307/3619091|jstor=3619091}}
• {{citation|title=none|first=Daniel Henry|last=Gottlieb|journal=The American Mathematical Monthly|volume=106|issue=10|date=December 1999|pages=977–980|doi=10.2307/2589771|jstor=2589771}}

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• BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07881kn Euclid's Elements], April 2016. June Barrow-Green on the expert panel with Marcus du Sautoy and Serafina Cuomo.

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