![]() ![]() Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhDs. In Women of Science: Righting the Record, eds. Contributors to American mathematics: An Overview and Selection. In Women of Mathematics: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook, eds. Gilliland, Dennis, and Ester Samuel-Cahn. Interview with Margaret Murray, Newtown, Pennsylvania, 13 June.Ĭronin Scanlon, Jane. Letter to Margaret Murray, 29 December.īates, Grace. ![]() ![]() In light of the trailblazing work of Green and LaDuke on the pre-1940 doctorates, and the project of Leggett and Case on PhDs of the 1960s and 1970s, I see this work as key to a larger program of compiling a documentary history of the first century of American women mathematics PhDs. In this essay, I describe the personal motivations that led me to this project, surprises that emerged in the course of my research, and my ongoing efforts to complete and publish the database. ![]() In recent years, I have returned to the task of completing the database and publishing it online. My book, Women Becoming Mathematicians (MIT Press 2000)-while providing an overview of the entire group-was devoted in the main to what I had learned by conducting oral history interviews with 36 of the women. At the time, my primary motivation was to locate and interview as many of those still living as I reasonably could. In 1993, I started to compile a database of biographical information on the roughly 200 women who earned PhDs in mathematics from US colleges and universities during the 1940s and 1950s. ![]()
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