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Women Becoming Mathematicians

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– ) Lynn Loomis & W.V.O. Quine
1948 Helen Kelsall Nickerson (1918–1990) Joseph L. Walsh
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