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American women mathematics PhDs 1940-1959

Harvard University (Radcliffe College) Forties PhDs

PhD Year Name Adviser
1941 Jeanne Starrett LeCaine Agnew (1917–2000) George D. Birkhoff
1941 Jessie Esther Comegys (1898–1990)  —
1942 Anne Frances O’Neill (1915–2003) Marshall Stone
1948 Yael Naim Dowker (1919–2016) Witold Hurewicz
1948 H(elen) Margaret Elliott Larsen (1925–2015) Joseph L. Walsh
1948 (Ilse) Lisl Novak Gaal (1924–2024) Lynn Loomis & W.V.O. Quine
1948 Helen Kelsall Nickerson (1918–1990) Joseph L. Walsh
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