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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 ...
In June 2006, Udeigwe obtained his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Delaware and an M.A. in mathematics in April 2008. [10] He completed a thesis under Professor Robert P Gilbert at the University of Delaware as part of the requirements for his M.S. degree, which was titled "Identification of Objects in Acoustic Waveguide: Numerical Results and an Introduction to an Alternate ...
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).
She was an American musician, mathematician, and educator who became the first African American student at Mount St. Mary's College Notable work Consumer and Career Mathematics, Black Mathematicians and their Works, Impetus (1978), the Black Woman: Proceedings of the Fourth National Congress of Black Women of Canada (1978), and Changing Faces ...
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.
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).
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 ...
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]