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Got to this page on Grete Hermann (1901-1984) via Emmy Noether's (1882-1935) page (who was her doctoral supervisor in Göttingen).

At Lyeys was he, and at Satalye, Whan they were wonne; and in the Grete See At many a noble aryve hadde he be.

Ex: My vintage Grete Jalk dining set: $600.

Ministor of Justice Grete Faremo has sent a request to the US, where the justice department requests a clarification about whether or not Norwegian citizens have been under surveillance.

A few years later (see Jammer, 1974,p.273) Grete Hermann, 1935, pointed out a glaring deficiency in the argument, but she seems to have been entirely ignored.

Apart from, you know, coming up with the equation in the first place… ²: Edit to add: I didn't know about Grete Hermann's flaw in John von Neumann's proof that all non-local hidden variable theories were impossible.

The Copenhagen interpretation is the most obvious thing to compare it to, but personally I'm more interested in de Broglie-Bohm (pilot wave), which might have eclipsed it in the 20th century if people had paid attention when Grete Hermann pointed out Jon von Neumann's mistake.

An interesting example of someone who managed to produce two unrelated "sleeping beauties" in different fields is the German mathematician Grete Hermann.

Pioneering women's long-distance runner Grete Waitz, a nine-time New York City Marathon champion, earned $13k" Either their best and brightest are dirt poor or they prefer earning and keeping their money abroad.

A decade or so ago, there as a website called "Geoffrey Chaucer hath a blog." It was a sort of present day Chaucer, compleat (one might say) with variant spellings, and full of anacronyms like "for the Pardoner himselfe hath written an emayle ful of grete care and wo and muchel language of lamentacioun." I thought it quite charming.

Grete was dismissed, and Bell's paper only was admitted because the editor thought it was confirming Von Nuemman even.

The name Gretchen is a fairly ordinary English name, but it looks like it was originally a German diminutive of Greta/Grete?

Grete Hermann's 1926 this is the foundational paper for modern computer algebra.