User:CharMargaux/sandbox

This is my sandbox. Although, due to the lack of sand, I suspect it's a place to play, have fun, and sometimes...just sometimes get the proverbial sand in your eyes because you made a mistake and want to correct it. That's why the sandbox exists! So, if I mess up, I can practice until I'm boss at what I am doing. I wonder if you can invite others to play in your sandbox? That would make it more fun! Regardless, I'm emphatic that my sandbox has a turtle in it. My turtle's name is Sir Chainticleer. He's a pretty awesome companion.

Being bold is important on Wikipedia

I have completed the scientist Lorna Swain. I am hoping I did it correctly, it has been rejected and erased a few times.

I chose to work on the mathematician Lorna Mary Swain. She was a British mathematician who taught fluid dynamics and was a trend setter, teaching as a female in an academic setting as well as obtaining an education. Something that presented many obstacles that females had to overcome!

Her career was fascinating: She wanted to research in Göttingen, Germany in 1914 but her plans were cut short by WWI. With research in Germany untenable, Swain’s specialization in fluid dynamics took her instead to Manchester where she began work alongside Horace Lamb (it should be noted that many women were still working with men, the men taking most of the credit!) with whom she co-published her first academic article. When she returned to Newnham after a year, as expected, the war temporarily focused her fluid dynamics research on the problem of propeller vibration in aircraft, a considerable problem for aircraft used in the First World War.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/Biographies/Swain.html (this is a great source for her biography!) CharMargaux (talk) 04:47, 24 November 2016 (UTC)