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Margaret Eliza Maltby
Maltby with her son Philip Randolph Meyer, home from flight training at Kelly Field, circa 1918.
- ... that physicist Margaret Eliza Maltby hid the birth of her child and then re-adopted him years later?
- Source: In 2014, Autosomal DNA tests indicated that Philip Randolph Meyer was Maltby's natural son. He was born in June 1897, six months after Maltby's sudden resignation from Wellesley College. When Maltby returned to a research position in Germany in 1898, she left her son in the care of a friend who had a nursery. Upon taking up a post at Barnard College in 1901, Maltby reunited with Meyer. (Gill, Raymond (Spring–Summer 2016). "Genetics & Genealogy - Miss Maltby and Her Ward: Using DNA to Investigate a Family Mystery". American Ancestors. 17 (2): 49–52.)
- ALT1: ... that in 1895 Margaret Eliza Maltby became the first woman to earn a PhD in physics in Germany? Source: Margaret Maltby earned her PhD in physics in 1895 at the University of Göttingen. [1]
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- Comment: Sorry for the probable poor formatting of the source, my first time trying this!
Improved to Good Article status by Physhist (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has less than 5 past nominations.
Physhist (talk) 11:45, 15 July 2024 (UTC).