Hertha Ayrton, born Phoebe Sarah Marks in 1854, was an English physicist, electrical engineer, mathematician and inventor, as well as a suffragist. She was the first woman to become a member of the Institute of Electrical Engineers and was awarded the Hughes Medal by the Royal Society for her work on electric arcs and ripple marks in sand and water. During the First World War she invented an anti-gas fan for protection against poisonous gases. Throughout her life she supported women's enterprise, giving support to both Emmeline Pankhurst and Marie Curie and contributing actively to several British women's rights organisations.
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was an English physicist, electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor
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She was born at 6 Queen Street, Portsea, on the south coast of England.
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