1. Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley was a British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical understanding of how galaxies evolve, grow and die.
Beatrice Tinsley worked at Yale until her death from melanoma in the Yale Infirmary in 1981.
Beatrice Tinsley completed pioneering theoretical studies of how populations of stars age and affect the observable qualities of galaxies.
Beatrice Tinsley collaborated on basic research into models investigating whether the universe is closed or open.
Beatrice Tinsley died of melanoma on 23 March 1981, at the age of 40.
Beatrice Tinsley's ashes are buried at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut, which is surrounded by the Yale University campus.
The main-belt asteroid 3087 Beatrice Tinsley, discovered in 1981 at Mt John University Observatory near Tekapo, is named after her.
In 2017, Beatrice Tinsley was one of the Royal Society Te Aparangi's "150 women in 150 words", celebrating women's contribution to knowledge in New Zealand.
Beatrice Tinsley's obituary was published by The New York Times several decades later on 18 July 2018, in their "Overlooked" project, which aims to note "the stories of remarkable people whose deaths went unreported in The Times".
The University of Canterbury College of Science named their staff and postgraduate building after Beatrice Tinsley, which was opened in October 2019 by the Honourable Dr Megan Woods, Vice-Chancellor Cheryl de la Rey, and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Science Professor Wendy Lawson.