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1997: Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu was the first African American awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. [9] 1997 Scott W. Williams produced the website Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, a collection of African-American mathematicians, newsletter, and resources on Africans in ...
Mathematics portal This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American mathematicians . It includes American mathematicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
William Schieffelin Claytor (1908–1967), third African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, University of Pennsylvania [1] [2] Paul Cohen (1934–2007) Don Coppersmith (b. 1950), cryptographer, first four-time Putnam Fellow in history; Elbert Frank Cox (1895–1969), first African-American to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics, Cornell University
Black Mathematicians and Their Works is an edited volume of works in and about mathematics, by African-American mathematicians. It was edited by Virginia Newell , Joella Gipson , L. Waldo Rich, and Beauregard Stubblefield, with a foreword by Wade Ellis , and published in 1980 by Dorrance & Company.
This is a List of Lists of mathematicians and covers notable mathematicians by nationality, ethnicity, religion, profession and other characteristics. Alphabetical lists are also available (see table to the right).
Williams is one of two founders [5] of Black and Third World Mathematicians, which in 1971 became the National Association of Mathematicians. Together with Willam Massey of Lucent Technologies, Dr. Williams founded the Committee for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences in 1997.
Dudley Weldon Woodard (October 3, 1881 – July 1, 1965) was a Galveston-born American mathematician and professor, and the second African-American to earn a PhD in mathematics; the first was Woodard's mentor Elbert Frank Cox, who earned a PhD from Cornell in 1925).
Marjorie Lee Browne was a prominent mathematician and educator who, in 1949, became only the third African-American woman to earn a doctorate in her field. Browne was born on September 9, 1914, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mary Taylor Lee and Lawrence Johnson Lee. Her father, a railway postal clerk remarried shortly after his wife's death, when ...