Emmy Noether - Astrology Birth Chart, Horoscope
Date of Birth (local time):
23 March 1882 - 20:00 ( LMT )
Universal Time (UT/GMT):
23 March 1882 - 19:16 (-0:44h)
House system:
Placidus
Birth data source (Rodden Rating):
Steinbrecher, Astro.com (
Rodden Rating:
One of the
most underrated scientist of all time?
During her lifetime, Emmy Noether was hated by the establishment - and they almost forced her into obscurity.
Emmy Noether is probably the most important woman in all of science (in competition with Curie) and definitely the most important woman in mathematics. She was insanely talented and had an understanding of maths which was just astounding.
She wasn’t actually allowed to attend university - she could only “audit” classes - not actually attend them, and required every lecturer to approve of her presence (which many of them didn’t).
Then she was invited to Göttingen by Hilbert - despite the other faculties almost rioting at the idea of a woman being a member of staff. For the first few years of teaching, she was not paid at all. Virtually nobody attended her lectures - since they were being given by a woman (the accounts I have read of people who did attend say she was
a fantastic lecturer).
The other members of the department would, being frustrated with people not attending her lectures, pretend they were giving a lecture - which Noether would then give (people would walk out as soon as she walked in).
Despite this active hatred from the university - she produced some of the most important and fundamental work in mathematics and physics of the era (less flashy than Einstein - but pretty **** important!)
Her list of “contributions to maths and physics” section on Wikipedia is longer than Einstein’s - and
second only to Dirac in volume. Her most famous theory -
Noether's theorem is one of the most fundamental relationships we have - it links conservation laws to symmetries in space and time. It is beautiful in its simplicity.
On top of this, she was renowned for being a genuinely caring human being. To quote Wikipedia:
In addition to her mathematical insight, Noether was respected for her consideration of others. Although she sometimes acted rudely toward those who disagreed with her, she nevertheless
gained a reputation for constant helpfulness and patient guidance of new students…. A colleague later described her this way:
"Completely unegotistical and free of vanity, she never claimed anything for herself, but promoted the works of her students above all."
Despite being one of the most important people (not just woman) of the 20th century, her work is virtually unheard of outside of the scientific community - although that is beginning to change.
Even though she is slowly getting more recognition - in my opinion, she will always be underrated, until the day she is hoisted up next to Curie, Feynman and Einstein as the people who defined physics and mathematics in the 20th century.
Scientist (and theorist) Emmy Noether: