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1983: American mathematician Julia Robinson was elected the first female president of the American Mathematical Society for the term of 1983-1984 (but was unable to complete her term as she was suffering from leukemia), [60] [70] and became the first female mathematician to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. [30]
1981: Doris Schattschneider became the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine, a refereed bimonthly publication of the Mathematical Association of America. [24] [25] 1983: Julia Robinson became the first female president of the American Mathematical Society, [19] and the first female mathematician to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. [6]
Dorothy McCoy (1903–2001), American mathematician, first female doctorate in mathematics at University of Iowa; Janet McDonald (1905–2006), American geometer; Dusa McDuff FRS (born 1945), English researcher on symplectic geometry, winner of Satter Prize, first female Hardy Lecturer
Katherine Johnson Johnson in 1983 Born Creola Katherine Coleman (1918-08-26) August 26, 1918 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, U.S. Died February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24) (aged 101) Newport News, Virginia, U.S. Other names Katherine Goble Education West Virginia State University (BS) Occupation Mathematician Employers NACA NASA (1953–1986) Known for Calculating trajectories for NASA ...
Margaret Millington (1944–1973), English mathematician; Mangala Narlikar (graduated 1962), Indian mathematician; Klara Dan von Neumann (1911–1963), Hungarian computer scientist; Frances Northcutt (born 1943), American engineer; Rózsa Péter (1905–1977), Hungarian mathematician; Cicely Popplewell (1920–1995), British software engineer ...
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Kovalevskaya's mathematical results, such as the Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem, and her pioneering role as a female mathematician in an almost exclusively male-dominated field, have made her the subject of several books, including a biography by Ann Hibner Koblitz, [2] a biography in Russian by Polubarinova-Kochina [17] (translated into English ...
In 1975, she was the first female mathematician to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences. [1] Robinson was chosen as the first female president of the American Mathematical Society (for the term of 1983–1984) but was unable to complete her term as she was suffering from leukemia. [13]