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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.
Johnson decided on a career as a research mathematician, although this was a difficult field for African Americans and women to enter. The first jobs she found were in teaching. At a family gathering in 1952, a relative mentioned that the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was hiring mathematicians. [16]
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).
Walter Richard Talbot (1909-1977) [1] was the fourth African American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Geometric Group Theory) from the University of Pittsburgh [2] and Lincoln University's youngest Doctor of Philosophy. [3] He was a member of Sigma Xi [4] and Pi Tau Phi. [5]
Annie Easley (April 23, 1933 – June 25, 2011) was an African American computer scientist and mathematician who made critical contributions to NASA's rocket systems and energy technologies. Easley's early work involved running simulations at NASA's Plum Brook Reactor Facility and studying the effects of rocket launches on earth's ozone layer.
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.
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