From:
10 Women in Science and Tech Who Should Be Household Names
https://www.wired.com/story/10-women-science-tech-household-names/
“Cohl Furey’s work is so complex it’s difficult to describe, but her research has implications for the very building blocks of reality. Furey is obsessed with figuring out the mathematical laws of nature. Her discoveries challenge the standard model of particle physics, revealing how octonions—eight-dimensional numbers with special properties—could be at the heart of how atoms hold together. Furey’s work builds on decades of research and seems to confirm widely held suspicions in the field about the relationship between pure math and physics. Now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge, Furey could change our under¬standing of how the world works.”
Cohl Furey, a mathematical physicist at the University of Cambridge, is finding links between the standard model of particle physics and octonions, numbers whose multiplication rules are encoded in a triangular diagram called the Fano plane.