Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick

Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick called, Nora, born Balfour, ( born March 11, 1845 in East Lothian, † February 10, 1936 ) was a British campaigner for women's education and a leading figure of the Society for Psychical Research.

She was the daughter of James Maitland Balfour and Blanche Harriet and sister of Arthur Balfour, who later became British Prime Minister. Sidgwick received private lessons, particularly in mathematics, for which they showed a great inclination. She studied at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1876 and married Henry Sidgwick, who had founded in 1871 the Newnham College for women (the second college in Cambridge for women after Girton College) with which it began and for women's studies. In the admission to examinations they were successful, in the granting of academic degrees not. In 1880 she became vice - principal, and after the death of Prinzipalin Anne Clough 1892 Prinzipalin of Newnham College, which she remained until 1910. She taught mathematics there also. 1894 she became a member of the State Bryce Commission for Higher Education. In 1916 she moved from Cambridge in the near Woking, where she lived with one of her brothers until her death ( her husband had died in 1900 ).

Sidgwick was involved as a student at experiments of Lord Rayleigh to electrical conductivity. Rayleigh was her brother in law, husband of her sister Evelyn Georgiana Mary Balfour. Her passion for experimental physics she sat as president ( from 1908 ) of the Society for Psychical Research continues ( 1882 by Henry Sidgwick founded ) that investigated paranormal phenomena. In 1932 she became honorary president of the Society.