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"What will our soldiers think when they return to the university and find that they are required to learn at the feet of a woman?"

Such was the response of a faculty member at the idea of Emmy Noether joining the University of Göttingen to teach mathematics in 1915.
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So instead of receiving the title she deserved, Emmy spent years teaching courses often under the name of a male faculty member. It was his course; she was an assistant, was the official structure. And she wasn't paid for her work. Her family financially supported her.
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In 1919 she was given permission to teach officially, and she began receiving a small salary in 1922.

As a teacher, Emmy was known to speak loud and fast, for being generous, thoughtful. She cared deeply for her students, without vanity nor ego, promoting them and their work over anything else.
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Her students, in turn, followed her "as if following the Pied Piper." And while Emmy excelled as a teacher, she also made numerous significant contributions to research in mathematics and physics. - From Russty on FB
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