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#MathematicianMonday celebrates Marie Maynard Daly (1921- 2003). Daly was the first African-American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry (awarded by Columbia University in 1947).
#WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #Steminist
#MathematicianMonday celebrates Edward Bouchet (September 15, 1852 – October 28, 1918). Bouchet was an American physicist and the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in America, completing his dissertation in physics at Yale in 1876.
#BlackHistoryMonth #Stem
#MathematicianMonday honors Valerie Thomas (1943-present). Thomas was a NASA scientist and inventor creating the illusion transmitter for which she earned a patent in 1980.
📸: : Wikipedia
#BlackHistoryMonth #BHM
Learn more about Eratosthenes, a mathematician and astronomer who calculated the Earth's circumference. https://t.co/Ffg0RdueXi #mathematicianmonday
Introducing our seventh family: Chung! Fan Chung grew up in Taiwan and moved to the US after she completed her undergraduate degree. She worked at Bell Laboratories for 20 years. Her contributions to graphic studies include more than 200 papers and 3 books. #mathematicianmonday
Introducing our fifth family: Turing! Alan Turing is known as the father of modern computer science. He is credited with saving millions of lives and ending WWII. Turning created the first computer chess program... without a computer! #mathematicianmonday
Introducing our fourth family: Germain! Sophie Germain was a self-taught mathematical genius. She taught herself Latin so she could read classical mathematical works. Germain also submitted her work and communicated with Gauss under a male student's name. #mathematicianmonday
Introducing our first family: Banneker! Benjamin Banneker was a mathematician, astronomer, clockmaker, and publisher. Banneker contributed to the field of astronomy by devising calculations to predict solar and lunar eclipses. #mathematicianmonday
#MathematicianMonday celebrates Dr. Ruth Gonzalez. In 1986, she received her Ph.D. in applied mathematics making her the first U.S.-born Hispanic woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics.
#stem #womeinstem #hispanicheritagemonth
#MathematicianMonday Kalpana Chawla (1962-2003) was an American astronaut, engineer, and the first woman of Indian origin to go to space.
#AAPIHeritageMonth #NASA #WomenInStem
#MathematicianMonday - Ngo Bau Chau is a Vietnamese-French mathematician at the University of Chicago, known for proving the fundamental lemma. He is the first Vietnamese national to receive the Fields Medal.
📸: : Wikipedia
#AAPIHeritageMonth #RepresentationMatters #stem
#MathematicianMonday! If you are familiar the movie, Hidden Figures, then you know about the amazing work of Katherine Johnson. Without her mathematical calculations, we may not have been able to send man to the moon. Read more here: https://t.co/IMQOvWdC5Q
#MathematicianMonday celebrates Dr. Terence Tao. A child prodigy, Dr. Tao earned his Ph.D. from Princeton when he was 20. His research includes harmonic analysis, combinatorics, and number theory.
📸: : MacArthur Foundation
#MathEducation #UCLA #RepresentationMatters
#MathematicianMonday salutes Ellen Ochoa (b. 1958). Dr. Ochoa became the first Hispanic woman to go to space serving on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
📰 :Wikipedia
📷 : By NASA/Bill Stafford
#WomensHistoryMonth #RepresentationMatters #NASA
#MathematicianMonday honors Dorothy Bernstein. She was the first female president of the Mathematics Association of America. Due to her efforts, Goucher College was the first women's college to have its own computer.
#WomensHistoryMonth #RepresentationMatters #WomenInStem
#MathematicianMonday celebrates Mae Jemison (b.1956). Dr. Jemison is the first African American female astronaut.
Source: https://t.co/fjBpX09P5U
📷:: Courtesy NASA via Wikimedia Commons
#WomensHistoryMonth #RepresentationMatters #NASA #diversity
#MathematicianMonday celebrates Gladys Mae West! Dr. West contributed to the mathematical modeling of the shape of the earth, satellite geodesy models & the Global Positioning System (GPS).
📷 : US Air Force
#BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #GPS #womeninscience #blackwomen
#MathematicianMonday honors St. Elmo Brady. Dr. Brady was the first African-American to receive a doctorate in chemistry in the United States. He started chemistry programs at 4 HBCUs paving the way for generations of new young Black scientists.
📷: https://t.co/ndu52fmD8r
#MathematicianMonday celebrates David Blackwell (1919-2010). Several theorems bear his name, including the Blackwell renewal theorem, used in engineering, and the Rao-Blackwell theorem in statistics.
#BHM #STEM #statistics #gametheory #probablitytheory #representationmatters
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