A Brilliant Woman Student

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 35, 14 March 1930, Page 25

A Brilliant Woman Student

NeEws comes from overseas that Miss , Winifred Hackett, a 28-year-old student at Birmingham University, has beaten all the men in the electrical engineering department of the univers ity, and won a scholarship entitling her to a year’s research course. In a public tribute to the excellence of her work paid by Professor Cramp, chief of the department, he declared she was head and shoulders above any of the mén in originality, persistence, and patience.