Christine Mary Hamill (24 July 1923 – 24 March 1956) was an English mathematician who specialised in group theory and finite geometry.
[2] She won a Newnham research fellowship in 1948,[3] and received her Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in 1951.
Her dissertation, The Finite Primitive Collineation Groups which contain Homologies of Period Two, concerned the group-theoretic properties of collineations, geometric transformations preserving straight lines;[4] she also published this material in three journal papers.
A. Todd, who supervised her research work, observed that "the detailed results contained in her papers" were "of permanent value".
[3] After completing her doctorate, Hamill was appointed to a lectureship in the University of Sheffield.