Talk:Hilda Lyon

What is the "Lyon shape"?
What's the shape? Is this the conceptual "teardrop" shape (i.e. blunt nose, long tail, almost any of a great many shapes)? Or is it a more specific "Lyon" teardrop shape, according to some particular set of proportions that she devised? Andy Dingley (talk) 08:49, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi - the source that seemed most useful on this is a pamphlet that I think may be digitised but I'm not sure - will see if I can find a copy and get back to you soon! Zeromonk (talk) 12:02, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I think more of the contemporaneous stuff will come up under "Lyon form" (-A, B, C) than " shape." Anmccaff (talk) 22:51, 1 August 2017 (UTC)

Obtained a BA? When?
When did Lyon obtain her BA in mathematics from the University of Cambridge? She may have read mathematics, and taken the exams, but Cambridge did not award degrees to women until 1948 (although from 1921, women who passed the exams were given a diploma conferrning the "title" of the degree, but not the degree itself). The Queen (Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon) was the first, receiving an honourary LLD. Was Lyon's BA awarded posthumously?