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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.
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).
Melba Roy Mouton (April 28, 1929 – June 25, 1990) was an African American [1] mathematician who served as Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA's Trajectory and Geodynamics Division in the 1960s [2] and headed a group of NASA mathematicians called "computers". [3]
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
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.
In 1939, after marrying her first husband, James Goble, she left her teaching job and enrolled in a graduate mathematics program. She quit at the end of the first session and chose to focus on her family life. [16] She was the first African-American woman to attend graduate school at West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia.
The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive – Extensive list of detailed biographies The Oberwolfach Photo Collection – Photographs of mathematicians from all over the world Photos of mathematicians – Collection of photos of mathematicians (and computer scientists) made by Andrej Bauer.