* Astronomy

Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1 February 1888 - 18 April 1985) was an influential English archaeologist at a time when participation by women in the discipline was uncommon. 
She worked as an archaeologist in Egypt at the sites of Abydos and Oxyrhynchus. While studying at the British School of Archaeology in Egypt from 1921 to 1926, Caton-Thompson and the geologist Elinor Wight Gardner began the first archaeological survey of the northern Faiyum. 
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