Mavis Kathleen Hinds (1929–2009) was an English meteorologist who, together with Fred Bushby,[1] pioneered the use of computers to carry out meteorological calculations in the UK.
She studied Mathematics at University College London and on graduating joined the UK Meteorological (Met) Office in 1951, attending their Initial Forecasting Course that year.
She was seen at that time as one of the first prominent female meteorologists and also the first to play a leading role in the development of numerical weather prediction, both in the UK and worldwide.
[3] In 1954, at a meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society, Fred Bushby and Hinds presented the first computer-based baroclinic forecast in Europe.
Because in the early 1950s the UK Met Office had no in-house computing facilities, calculating power had to be obtained from part-time use of LEO and the Ferranti Mark 1 Star at the University of Manchester.