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This African American was Duke Universities first Black tenured professor in the sciences?
W. Katherine Okikiolu
X. Arlie Petters
Y. Jonathan Farley
Z. Wilfrid Gangbo
Ans. X. Arlie Petters
What African American is chiefly interested in the mathematical theory of gravitational lensing and related areas
and who has also published 30 papers and a book?
W. Katherine Okikiolu
X. Arlie Petters
Y. Jonathan Farley
Z. Wilfrid Gangbo
Ans. X. Arlie Petters
In 1998, what African American was awarded the most prestigious award for "young" mathematicians, the three
years Sloan Research Fellowship and in 2002; was recipient of the first Blackwell-Tapia Prize?
W. Katherine Okikiolu
X. Arlie Petters
Y. Jonathan Farley
Z. Wilfrid Gangbo
Ans. X. Arlie Petters
This African American received special distinction in 1997 when she was the first Black to win a Sloan Research
Fellowship. Later in 1997, she won the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers for
"Innovative research in geometric analysis?
W. Abba Gumel
X. Adebisi Agboola
Y. Trachette Jackson
Z. Katherine Okikiolu
Ans. Z. Katherine Okikiolu
She is Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at San Diego?
W. Abba Gumel
X. Adebisi Agboola
Y. Trachette Jackson
Z. Katherine Okikiolu
Ans. Z. Katherine Okikiolu
Graduated second in there class with an A.B. from Harvard University and obtained a mathematics Ph.D. from
Oxford University where this person was awarded the Senior Mathematical Prize and Johnson Prize for his
research.
W. Wilfrid Gangbo
X. Abba Gumel
Y. Jonathan Farley
Z. Adebisi Agboola
Ans. Y. Jonathan Farley
This mathematician is currently publishing at an average of more than three papers a year, and in 2003 was a
Distinguished Fulbright Scholar at Oxford University in England?
W. Wilfrid Gangbo
X. Abba Gumel
Y. Jonathan Farley
Z. Adebisi Agboola
Ans. Y. Jonathan Farley
Which African American earned a Ph.D. from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology?
W. Wilfrid Gangbo
X. Abba Gumel
Y. Jonathan Farley
Z. Adebisi Agboola
Ans. W. Wilfrid Gangbo
Among the twelve papers of this black mathematician, in 1996, The geometry of optimal transportation remains
the single publication by a Black in the Mittag-Leffler Institute's Act Mathematics, one of the world's strongest
mathematics journals. In 2001 this person was appointed Full Professor by Georgia Institute of Technology.
W. Wilfrid Gangbo
X. Abba Gumel
Y. Jonathan Farley
Z. Adebisi Agboola
Ans. W. Wilfrid Gangbo
This person is extremely prolific in the areas of Mathematical Biology, Non-linear Dynamical Systems, and
Computational Mathematics. Currently he is a Full Professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada.
W. Wilfrid Gangbo
X. Abba Gumel
Y. Jonathan Farley
Z. Adebisi Agboola
Ans. X. Abba Gumel
She was a mathematics major at Arizona State in Tempe. Four years later she earned a Ph.D. in Mathematical
Biology. The next five years she had ten articles published and a Sloan Fellowship. Currently, this black
mathematician is Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics University of Michigan.
W. Abba Gumel
X. Adebisi Agboola
Y. Trachette Jackson
Z. Katherine Okikiolu
Ans. Y. Trachette Jackson
As a co-founder of CAARMS, the annual Conference for African Americans Researchers in the Mathematical
Sciences, in 2001, he became the first tenured African American Mathematician at an Ivy League University. He
is Full Professor in Princeton University's department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering.
W. Nathaniel Dean
X. William Massey
Y. Idris Asssni
Z. Carl Graham
Ans. X. William Massey
Recently moved from Bell Labs and Lucent Technologies to academia in order to strengthen an already strong
Applied Mathematics program at Rice University, who is this individual?
W.Nathaniel Dean
X. William Massey
Y. Idris Asssni
Z. Carl Graham
Ans. W. Nathaniel Dean
Currently he is Full Professor of Mathematics and Chairman of Mathematics at the HBCU Texas Southern
University in Houston. Nearly half of his 50 publications are in Computer Science.
W. Nathaniel Dean
X. William Massey
Y. Idris Asssni
Z. Carl Graham
Ans. W. Nathaniel Dean
He published 50 papers in a variety of pure mathematics subjects on the way to becoming Professor and Head of
Applied Mathematics Department at the University of the North and South Africa.
W. Overtoun M. Jenda
X. Oluwole D. Makinde
Y. Carl Graham
Z. Idris Assani
Ans. X. Oluwole D. Makinde
What Black Masters Mathematician earned his Ph.D. at the age of 22, at the University of Illinois in1941?
W. David Blackwell
X. J. Ernest Wilkins
Y. George O. Okikiolu
Z. James Ezeilo
Ans. W. David Blackwell
In 1965 he became the first African American named to the National Academy of Sciences (he is still the only
Black mathematician to be so honored). In 1979 he won the von Neumann Theory Prize (the Operations
Research Society of America).
W. David Blackwell
X. J. Ernest Wilkins
Y. George O. Okikiolu
Z. James Ezeilo
Ans. W. David Blackwell
At the age of 13, he entered the University of Chicago. He received his B.S. in Mathematics three and a half
years later and at the age of 19 he earned a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago (1942) for a
thesis in the area of Calculus of Variations. He was described in national newspapers as "the Negro genius."
W. David Blackwell
X. J. Ernest Wilkins
Y. George O. Okikiolu
Z. James Ezeilo
Ans. X. J. Ernest Wilkins
What mathematics’ master experienced racism from the AMS (American Mathematics Society)?
W. David Blackwell
X. J. Ernest Wilkins
Y. George O. Okikiolu
Z. James Ezeilo
Ans. X. J. Ernest Wilkins
He has published nearly 100 papers (under 50 in Mathematics), was Assistant Chairman of the Theoretical
Physics Department and Assistant Director of the Atomic Division of General Dynamics Corporation. He was
the second African American member of the National Academy of Engineers.
W. David Blackwell
X. J. Ernest Wilkins
Y. George O. Okikiolu
Z. James Ezeilo
Ans. X. J. Ernest Wilkins
This Master Mathematician’s major achievements have been the development of radiation shielding against
gamma radiation, emitted during electron decay of the Sun and other nuclear sources. He developed
mathematical models by which the amount of gamma radiation absorbed by a given material can be calculated.
W. David Blackwell
X. J. Ernest Wilkins
Y. George O. Okikiolu
Z. James Ezeilo
Ans. X. J. Ernest Wilkins
In 1949 at the age of 19, he earned a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Biology from the University of Iowa. By
the time he was 23; he produced mathematics for eight published papers, but did not produce a Ph.D. thesis at his
graduate school - the University of Chicago.
W. James Ezeilo
X. Albert T. Bharucha-Reid
Y. Ronald E. Mickens
Z. Charles Bell
Ans. X. Albert T. Bharucha-Reid
He published six books and nearly 80 papers in algebra, analysis, mathematical biology, statistics, and topology,
and was an undisputed leader in the area of Random Polynomials. With the exception of short stays at many
institutions, he spent the majority of his career at Wayne State University in positions from Professor to Chair to
Dean.
W. James Ezeilo
X. Albert T. Bharucha-Reid
Y. Ronald E. Mickens
Z. Charles Bell
Ans. X. Albert T. Bharucha-Reid
Which master mathematician has published three books and 190 papers?
W. David Blackwell
X.
J. Ernest Wilkins
Y.
George O. Okikiolu
Z.
James Ezeilo
Ans. Y. George O. Okikiolu
The main thrust of this master mathematicians’ work was the construction of Lyapunov-like functions, which he
did elegantly and used to study the qualitative properties of solutions.
W. James Ezeilo
X. Albert T. Bharucha-Reid
Y. Ronald E. Mickens
Z. Charles Bell
Ans. W. James Ezeilo
He was a pioneer in the use of Leray-Schauder degree type arguments to obtain existence results for periodic
solutions of ordinary differential equations.
W. James Ezeilo
X. Albert T. Bharucha-Reid
Y. Ronald E. Mickens
Z. Charles Bell
Ans. W. James Ezeilo
He published over 200 papers and 5 books. He was honored with an election to Fellowship in the American
Physical Society, a rare position limited to .5% of the membership of the society.
W. James Ezeilo
X. Albert T. Bharucha-Reid
Y. Ronald E. Mickens
Z. Charles Bell
Ans. Y. Ronald E. Mickens
Who was the first African American to receive a faculty position in mathematics at a predominantly white
institution - Central College in Cortland County, New York?
W. Charles Reason
X. Benjamin Banneker
Y. Edward Alexander Bouychet
Z. Kelly Miller
Ans. W. Charles Reason
Which individual is often recognized as the first African American Mathematician?
W. Charles Reason
X. Benjamin Banneker
Y. Edward Alexander Bouychet
Z. Kelly Miller
Ans. X. Benjamin Banneker
He was the first African American to study graduate mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.
W. Charles Reason
X. Benjamin Banneker
Y. Edward Alexander Bouychet
Z. Kelly Miller
Ans. Z. Kelly Miller
He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in Science (Physics - Yale University) and only the sixth
American to possess a Ph.D. in Physics.
W. Charles Reason
X. Benjamin Banneker
Y. Edward Alexander Bouychet
Z. Kelly Miller
Ans. Y. Edward Alexander Bouychet
What African American wrote the first research paper published in an accredited mathematics journal on two
dimensional analysis sites with special reference to the Jordan Curve Theorem, Fundamental Mathematic?
W. Dudley Weldon Woodard
X. William Schieffelin Clayton
Y. Walter R. Tolbot
Z. Ruben R. McDaniel
Ans. W. Dudley Weldon Woodard
He became the second African American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania in
1928
W. Dudley Weldon Woodard
X. William Schieffelin Clayton
Y. Walter R. Tolbot
Z. Ruben R. McDaniel
Ans. W. Dudley Weldon Woodard
1933 he became the third African American to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania
W. Dudley Weldon Woodard
X. William Schieffelin Clayton
Y. Walter R. Tolbot
Z. Ruben R. McDaniel
Ans. X. William Schieffelin Clayton
He was the first African American to publish in a top research journal: Topological Immersion of Peanian
Continua in a Spherical Surface, Annals of Mathematics 35 (1934), 809-835.
W. Dudley Weldon Woodard
X. William Schieffelin Clayton
Y. Walter R. Tolbot
Z. Ruben R. McDaniel
Ans. X. William Schieffelin Clayton
In 1947, at the age of 19, he earned his B.S. degree in mathematics and statistics from Xavier University. In
1948, he earned a MS degree from the University of Notre Dame and earned his Ph.D. in 1953 from the same
university.
W. James Ezeilo
X. Albert T. Bharucha-Reid
Y. Ronald E. Mickens
Z. Charles Bell
Ans. Z. Charles Bell
In 1951 he accepted a position as a Research Engineer with the Douglas Aircraft Company. He remained with
Douglas until 1955. He returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University, as an assistant professor of
mathematics and physics for the next two years
W. James Ezeilo
X. Albert T. Bharucha-Reid
Y. Ronald E. Mickens
Z. Charles Bell
Ans. Z. Charles Bell
He earned his B.Sc. in Mathematics at Brown University (1965), a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics at the
University of Nigeria-Nsukka and earned his PhD. in Mathematics from Case Western Reserve University
(1972).
W. Ethelbert Chukwu
X. Francisco Antonio Doria
Y. Donald Richards
Z. Floyd Williams
Ans. W. Ethelbert Chukwu
From 1984 until 1989, he held several visiting positions at universities in the U.S. However, he became
Professor of Mathematics at North Carolina State University where he remains until today. He has also worked
on several research projects for NASA since his membership in the faculty of mathematics at NCSU
W. Ethelbert Chukwu
X. Francisco Antonio Doria
Y. Donald Richards
Z. Floyd Williams
Ans. W. Ethelbert Chukwu
He was awarded the Griot Mathematics Award by the Academy for Pan African Research and Culture. He has
over 75 papers and books on various topics from Classical Analysis to Operator Theory and Applied
Mathematics- linear and non-linear differential equations, and Mathematical Economics.
W. Ethelbert Chukwu
X. Francisco Antonio Doria
Y. Donald Richards
Z. Floyd Williams
Ans. W. Ethelbert Chukwu
In the two years between is Bachelors degree (1968) and studying graduate mathematics, this Math Professor
also trained as a securities analyst with a member of Rio's Stock Exchange. He was also one of the founders of
the School of Communications at Federal University
W. Ethelbert Chukwu
X. Francisco Antonio Doria
Y. Donald Richards
Z. Floyd Williams
Ans. X. Francisco Antonio Doria
In two years, he went from an undergraduate degree to a Ph.D. He published numerous papers and in 1987 he
joined the Statistics faculty of the University of Virginia, currently and since 1994 he is Chair of the Division of
Statistics of the University of Virginia
W. Ethelbert Chukwu
X. Francisco Antonio Doria
Y. Donald Richards
Z. Floyd Williams
Ans. X. Francisco Antonio Doria
By the time he received a B.S. in Mathematics from Morgan State College; he had solved 4 advanced problems
in The Mathematical monthly and had co-authored two papers on Non-Associative Algebra with his
undergraduate advisor
W. Scott Williams
X. John A. Ewell
Y. Floyd Williams
Z. Earl Barnes
Ans. W. Scott Williams
He founded and led the Black Uhuru Society, which later became Lehigh University's Black Student Union. He
earned an M. S. in Mathematics from Lehigh University (1967) and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Lehigh
University (1969).
W. Scott Williams
X. John A. Ewell
Y. Floyd Williams
Z. Earl Barnes
Ans. W. Scott Williams
In 2004, Science Spectrum Magazine and Career Communications Group, Inc. selected him as one of the 50
Most Important Blacks in Research Science.
W. Scott Williams
X. John A. Ewell
Y. Floyd Williams
Z. Earl Barnes
Ans. W. Scott Williams
He earned a B.A. in Chemistry at Morehouse College in 1948, and was a graduate student in Physical-Chemistry
at the University of Colorado from 1949-51
W. Scott Williams
X. John A. Ewell
Y. Floyd Williams
Z. Earl Barnes
Ans. X. John A. Ewell
From 1968 until retirement in 1998, he published 43 papers in Mathematics. He has also published 4 papers
since retiring and in June 2003 he gave a lecture on his research at CAARMS 9.
W. Scott Williams
X. John A. Ewell
Y. Floyd Williams
Z. Earl Barnes
Ans. X. John A. Ewell
This African American’s research interests include Linear Algebra, and mathematical programming, has
published nearly 40 mathematics papers and is the co-author of a forthcoming book on linear programming.
W. Scott Williams
X. John A. Ewell
Y. Floyd Williams
Z. Earl Barnes
Ans. Z. Earl Barnes
He is a Full Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Georgia Institute of Technology.
He is a member of the board of CAARMS, the Council for African American Researchers in the Mathematical
Sciences, SIAM, AMS, MAA, MPS, and INFORMS
W. Scott Williams
X. John A. Ewell
Y. Floyd Williams
Z. Earl Barnes
Ans. Z. Earl Barnes
His thesis was in the field of Lie Theory, advanced mathematics that deals with symmetry, and he has continued
to work in that area for the past 20 years, with a current emphasis on mathematical Physics. He received and
MRI grant in 1983 to continue his research in this field.
W. Scott Williams
X. John A. Ewell
Y. Floyd Williams
Z. Earl Barnes
Ans. Y. Floyd Williams
He became intrigued with the theory of relativity. This was his main motivation for starting to study
mathematics. He graduated from Lincoln University with a major in mathematics, and semi-majors in physics
and music. He went on to earn a Ph.D. at Washington University in St. Louis.
W. Scott Williams
X. John A. Ewell
Y. Floyd Williams
Z. Earl Barnes
Ans. Y. Floyd Williams
Born in Nigeria in 1963 he studied physics at Ibadan University where he received a BS (1982), an M. Sc
(1985), and in 1989 he received his PhD. In 1990 he was appointed Lecturer of Physics at the University of
Agriculture
W. Olatunde Akinlade
X. Bamidele Awojogbe
Y. Abba B. Gumel
Z. Oluwole D. Makinde
Ans. W. Olatunde Akinlade
In 1944 he became a full professor of Physics and was made Chairman of the Physics Department of Howard
University from 1941 to 1968.
W. Scott Williams
X. Herman Branson
Y. Benjamin Banneker
Z. Clarence Stephens
Ans. X. Herman Branson
From 1968 to 1970, this physicist was selected as President of Central State University and in 1970 he became
the President of Lincoln University and served until his retirement in 1985.
W. Scott Williams
X. Herman Branson
Y. Benjamin Banneker
Z. Clarence Stephens
Ans. X. Herman Branson
He is the first African American to earn a Computer Science Ph.D. at the University of Illinois in 1969.
W. Clarence Ellis
X. Alton Wallace
Y. Lonnie Cross
Z. C. Dwight Lahr
Ans. W. Clarence Ellis
In 1974 he becomes the first African American to earn a mathematics Ph.D. with an African American thesis
advisor, at the University of Maryland
W. Clarence Ellis
X. Alton Wallace
Y. Lonnie Cross
Z. C. Dwight Lahr
Ans. X. Alton Wallace
In 1981 he is the first African American to get tenure in a department of mathematics of an Ivy League School.
In 1984 he was also the first African American to become Full Professor in a department of mathematics of an
Ivy League School.
W. Clarence Ellis
X. Alton Wallace
Y. Lonnie Cross
Z. C. Dwight Lahr
Ans. Z. C. Dwight Lahr
In 1984 he was the first African American to become Full Professor in a department of mathematics of an Ivy
League School.
W. Clarence Ellis
X. Alton Wallace
Y. Lonnie Cross
Z. C. Dwight Lahr
Ans. Z. C. Dwight Lahr
He received his B.S. in Mathematics from Johnson C. Smith University in 1938, and from the University of
Michigan he earned an M.S. in 1938 and a Ph.D. in 1943 in Mathematics. He is also the ninth African American
to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics
W. Scott Williams
X. Herman Branson
Y. Benjamin Banneker
Z. Clarence Stephens
Ans. Z. Clarence Stephens
His method of teaching is recognized as one of the most profound in producing mathematics majors.
W. Scott Williams
X. Herman Branson
Y. Benjamin Banneker
Z. Clarence Stephens
Ans. Z. Clarence Stephens
In 2000, he was awarded the Honorary Doctorate of Science by Lincoln University. He was also honored by
Governor Millard Tawes of Maryland for distinguished service to education. He received the SUNY Chancellor's
Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1976.
W. Scott Williams
X. Herman Branson
Y. Benjamin Banneker
Z. Clarence Stephens
Ans. Z. Clarence Stephens
In 1937 he was awarded a Rosenwald Fellowship and pursued post-doctoral studies at the University of
Michigan
W. Dudley Weldon Woodard
X. William Schieffelin Clayton
Y. Walter R. Tolbot
Z. Ruben R. McDaniel
Ans. X. William Schieffelin Clayton
Inspite of a 18 to 21 teaching hours per week, and, later, as Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Howard
University, he worked for years as a researcher but he published only two papers:
W. Dudley Weldon Woodard
X. William Schieffelin Clayton
Y. Walter R. Tolbot
Z. Ruben R. McDaniel
Ans. X. William Schieffelin Clayton
His areas of research interests were, Topology, Planar Continua and is thesis involved: Topological Immersion
of Peanian Continua in a Spherical Surface
W. Dudley Weldon Woodard
X. William Schieffelin Clayton
Y. Walter R. Tolbot
Z. Ruben R. McDaniel
Ans. X. William Schieffelin Clayton
She had no formal training but was a very astute observer who contributed greatly to the paleontological
collections of her day. She found the first complete ichthyosaur skeleton in 1811, a nearly complete plesiosaur
and the first British pterodactyl in 1828.
W. Mary Anning
X. Anna Atkins
Y. Ruth Benedict
Z. Laura Bassi
Ans. W. Mary Anning
She was an anthropologist with PhD from Columbia University. In 1934 she published Patterns of Culture,
which became an American classic and vaulted her to immediate acclaim. It remains one of the most widely read
books in the social sciences ever written.
W. Mary Anning
X. Anna Atkins
Y. Ruth Benedict
Z. Laura Bassi
Ans. Y. Ruth Bennedict
She was an anatomist and natural philosopher who received the doctoral degree from the University of Bologna.
She was an expert of equal worth in Latin, logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, algebra, geometry, Greek, and
French.
W. Mary Anning
X. Anna Atkins
Y. Ruth Benedict
Z. Laura Bassi
Ans. Z. Laura Bassi
She and her husband created one of the best experimental physics laboratories known in 18th century Europe.
Her scientific papers consisted of one on chemistry, thirteen on physics, eleven on hydraulics, two on
mathematics, one on mechanics and one on technology.
W. Mary Anning
X. Anna Atkins
Y. Ruth Benedict
Z. Laura Bassi
Ans. Z. Laura Bassi
She was an early 20th century British physicist who worked in electricity and wrote what became a standard
textbook "The Electric Arc."
W. Elizabeth Blackwell
X. Olive Ann Beech
Y. S. Josephine Baker
Z. Hertha Marks Aryton
Ans. Z. Hertha Marks Aryton
In 1904 she was the first woman to read a paper before the Royal Society. It was entitled “The Origin and
Growth of Ripple Marks.” She received the Hughes Medal for her original research into the electric arc and the
sand ripples.
W. Elizabeth Blackwell
X. Olive Ann Beech
Y. S. Josephine Baker
Z. Hertha Marks Aryton
Ans. Z. Hertha Marks Aryton
This British Physicists invented and patented an instrument for dividing a line into any number of equal parts.
W. Elizabeth Blackwell
X. Olive Ann Beech
Y. S. Josephine Baker
Z. Hertha Marks Aryton
Ans. Z. Hertha Marks Aryton
She went to the Women's Medical College in New York City to earn her MD. She perfected the application of
sliver nitrate eye drops to infants, now a standard procedure to prevent eye infections in newborns.
W. Elizabeth Blackwell
X. Olive Ann Beech
Y. S. Josephine Baker
Z. Hertha Marks Aryton
Ans. Y. S. Josephine Baker
She was the first woman to be assistant surgeon general in the United States. She was also the first woman
representative to the League of Nations - Health Committee representative for the United States.
W. Elizabeth Blackwell
X. Olive Ann Beech
Y. S. Josephine Baker
Z. Hertha Marks Aryton
Ans. Y. S. Josephine Baker
This Aircraft Manufacturer worked alongside her husband after his death, she became President and CEO of the
company, and transformed the company into a multimillion-dollar, international Aerospace Corporation.
W. Elizabeth Blackwell
X. Olive Ann Beech
Y. S. Josephine Baker
Z. Hertha Marks Aryton
Ans. X. Olive Ann Beech
She received the first medical degree granted to a woman in the United States from Geneva College in NY in
1849.
W. Elizabeth Blackwell
X. Olive Ann Beech
Y. S. Josephine Baker
Z. Hertha Marks Aryton
Ans. W. Elizabeth Blackwell I
In 1853 this physician opened a dispensary in a tenement district of New York City, which later became the New
York Infirmary for Women and Children in 1868.
W. Elizabeth Blackwell
X. Olive Ann Beech
Y. S. Josephine Baker
Z. Hertha Marks Aryton
Ans. W. Elizabeth Blackwell
She received the first engineering degree awarded to an American woman. She received the degree in 1876 in
civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.
W. Elizabeth Bragg
X. Sophia Brahe
Y. Mary E. Britten
Z. Margaret Burbidge
Ans. W. Elizabeth Bragg
She attended Berea College between 1871 and 1874 and then became the first African- American women to
practice as a physician in Lexington, Kentucky.
W. Elizabeth Bragg
X. Sophia Brahe
Y. Mary E. Britten
Z. Margaret Burbidge
Ans. Y. Mary E. Britten
This physician won notoriety for a powerful speech in 1893 against a bill for segregated seating in railroad
coaches that was before the state legislature.
W. Elizabeth Bragg
X. Sophia Brahe
Y. Mary E. Britten
Z. Margaret Burbidge
Ans. Y. Mary E. Britten
She has been a president of the American Astronomical Society and Director of the Greenwich Royal
Observatory. She was the first woman who is an astronomer to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
W. Elizabeth Bragg
X. Sophia Brahe
Y. Mary E. Britten
Z. Margaret Burbidge
Ans. Z. Margaret Burbidge
In 1957 this astronomer, along with her colleagues, showed the famous result that all of the elements, except the
very lightest, are produced by nuclear processed inside stars.
W. Elizabeth Bragg
X. Sophia Brahe
Y. Mary E. Britten
Z. Margaret Burbidge
Ans. Z. Margaret Burbidge
This Astronomer translated and simplified the works of Johannus Kepler into the common tongue. She even
simplified his work by omitting the complicated use of the then new logarithms that Kepler used. For several
centuries her translations were the only ones available to scholars.
W. Mary Whiton Calkins
X. Annie Jump Cannon
Y. Cornelia Clapp
Z. Marie Cunitz
Ans. Z. Marie Cunitz
She received degrees by examination from Syracuse University (a Ph.B. in 1888 and a Ph.D. in 1889) and also
studied at the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.D. in 1896. She became a professor of zoology at Mt.
Holyoke College and was active in the research group at the then newly established Marine Biology Lab at
Woods Hole, Massachusetts.
W. Mary Whiton Calkins
X. Annie Jump Cannon
Y. Cornelia Clapp
Z. Marie Cunitz
Ans. Y. Cornelia Clapp
In 1896 she participated in the first x-ray experiments in this country. Then she went to Harvard College
Observatory. She became the world's expert in classifying stars. She assigned over a quarter million stars to their
place in the great spectral catalog:
W. Mary Whiton Calkins
X. Annie Jump Cannon
Y. Cornelia Clapp
Z. Marie Cunitz
Ans. X. Annie Jump Cannon
She was a pioneer in psychology. She was responsible for the creation of a method of memorization called the
right associates method and she also founded the psychology department at Wellesley College.
W. Mary Whiton Calkins
X. Annie Jump Cannon
Y. Cornelia Clapp
Z. Marie Cunitz
Ans. W. Mary Whiton Calkins
This psychologist was the first female president of both the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1905,
and the American Philosophical Association in 1918.
W. Mary Whiton Calkins
X. Annie Jump Cannon
Y. Cornelia Clapp
Z. Marie Cunitz
Ans. W. Mary Whiton Calkins
This chemist received her degree in Chemistry in 1951 from Cambridge University. It was while working as a
research associate for James Randall at King's College that she was the first to recognize the helix shape of
DNA. She has never received official credit for her contribution to the discovery.
W. Sophia Germain
X. Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Y. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Z. Kate Gleason
Ans. X. Rosalind Elsie Franklin
She taught herself basic mathematics, learning Latin and Greek so she could read important works by Sir Isaac
Newton and the mathematician Leonhard Euler. Prime numbers are the result of her work in number theory. She
proved that the first case of Fermat's last theorem is true for certain prime numbers
W. Sophia Germain
X. Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Y. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Z. Kate Gleason
Ans. W. Sophia Germain
This Mathematician helped to develop the modern theory of elasticity. Elasticity is the mathematical
representation of stress and strain in materials such as steel beams. Modern construction would be impossible
without her original works on the subject
W. Sophia Germain
X. Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Y. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Z. Kate Gleason
Ans. W. Sophia Germain
This Engineer became the first women elected to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. She also
served as the society's representative to the World Power Conference in Germany in 1930.
W. Sophia Germain
X. Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Y. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Z. Kate Gleason
Ans. Z. Kate Gleason
She won the Nobel Prize in 1964 in chemistry "for her determination by x-ray techniques of the structure of
biologically important molecules.
W. Sophia Germain
X. Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Y. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Z. Kate Gleason
Ans. Y. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
This Geneticist showed that genes could transpose within chromosomes.
W. Grace Hopper
X. Bertha Lamme
Y. Maria Goeppert Mayer
Z. Barbara Mcclintock
Ans. Z. Barbara Mcclintock
She received the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1983. Her Nobel lecture was entitled "The Significance of
Responses of the Genome to Challenge."
W. Grace Hopper
X. Bertha Lamme
Y. Maria Goeppert Mayer
Z. Barbara Mcclintock
Ans. Z. Barbara Mcclintock
She coined the term 'computer bug' during her work with the first electronic computers when she found the moth
that had shorted out two tubes.
W. Grace Hopper
X. Bertha Lamme
Y. Maria Goeppert Mayer
Z. Barbara Mcclintock
Ans. W. Grace Hopper
This mathematician invented the modern subroutine. She built the first A-O compiler which went live on
November 4, 1952 on the UNIVAC I to predict the Eisenhower win after 7% vote returns. She invented the
language APT. She verified the language COBOL
W. Grace Hopper
X. Bertha Lamme
Y. Maria Goeppert Mayer
Z. Barbara Mcclintock
Ans. W. Grace Hopper
She received the second engineering degree awarded to an American woman. She received the degree in 1893
from the Ohio State University.
W. Grace Hopper
X. Bertha Lamme
Y. Maria Goeppert Mayer
Z. Barbara Mcclintock
Ans. X. Bertha Lamme
She won the Nobel Prize in physics for her ground breaking work in models of the nucleus of atoms. She was the
first American woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics
W. Grace Hopper
X. Bertha Lamme
Y. Maria Goeppert Mayer
Z. Barbara Mcclintock
Ans. Y. Marie Goeppert Mayer
She was an early 20th century biologist working in Toronto, Canada in enzyme kinetics. The method she
developed is called Michealis-Menten Kinetics and is the standard technique used today.
W. Maud Menten
X. Maria Mitchell
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. W. Maud Menten
Working with Leonor Michaelis this biologist derived a mathematical model to describe the kinetics of how
enzymes catalyze (enable) reactions.
W. Maud Menten
X. Maria Mitchell
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. W. Maud Menten
The work of Michaelis and this German scientist (biologist) enabled several subsequent generations of
biochemists to assess correctly the nature and efficiency of the key, enzyme-driven steps in cell metabolism.
Their joint work in 1913 led to the model describing the kinetics of how enzymes catalyze reactions
W. Maud Menten
X. Maria Mitchell
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. W. Maud Menten
She was the first professor of astronomy in the US who was a woman.
W. Maud Menten
X. Maria Mitchell
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. X. Maria Mitchell
This astronomer discovered the comet of 1847 and in 1848 she appointed the first woman to the Academy of
Arts and Sciences
W. Maud Menten
X. Maria Mitchell
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. X. Maria Mitchell
1853 this female astronomer awarded the first advanced degree given to a woman - from Indiana Hanover
College. She was also awarded the Medal of Merit from Switzerland and the Republic of San Moreno, in 1859.
W. Maud Menten
X. Maria Mitchell
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. X. Maria Mitchell
In 1865 this astronomer was appointed to the American Philosophical Society. In 1865 she was appointed the
first woman to the faculty of Vassar and was elected president of the American Association for the Advancement
of Women in 1875.
W. Maud Menten
X. Maria Mitchell
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. X. Maria Mitchell
Not only was she a nurse of international reputation she was also a mathematician statistician. In 1860 for her
contribution to Army statistics and comparative hospital statistics this mathematician became the first woman to
be elected a fellow of the Statistical Society
W. Maud Menten
X. Maria Mitchell
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. Y. Florence Nightingale
This female mathematician’s writings on hospital planning and organization had a profound effect in England
and across the world. She was the first person in the Western world to introduce statistics into public health. She
also introduced the pie chart. In 1907 she became the first woman to receive the British Order of Merit.
W. Maud Menten
X. Maria Mitchell
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. Y. Florence Nightingale
She was a mathematician in the first half of the 20th century, receiving her Ph.D. from the University of
Erlangen in 1907. Her work in group theory, ring theory, group representations and number theory was
fundamental to further mathematical principles and would prove useful to physicists and crystallographers.
W. Maud Menten
X. Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. Z. Amalie Noether
The mathematician is known for her work in ideal theory and non-associative algebras. Denied recognition for
her work most of her life, in 1932 she received the Alfred Ackermann-Teubner Memorial Prize for the
Advancement of Mathematical Sciences.
W. Maud Menten
X. Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. Z. Amalie Noether
Her PhD dissertation was said to the best one in 20th century astronomy. She became the first woman to become
a full professor at Harvard. She received her Bachelor’s degree from Newnham College, England in 1923 and
her doctorate from Radcliffe in 1925. She was the first person to receive a Ph.D. in astronomy awarded either by
Radcliffe or Harvard and she was the first person to receive a Ph.D. for work done at the Harvard Observatory.
W. Maud Menten
X. Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin
Y. Florence Nightingale
Z. Amalie Noether
Ans. X. Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin
Over the course of this Black American’s career, this person contributed to computer program designs for
research related to Halley's comet, ozone hole studies, and voyager satellite development.
W. Valerie Thomas
X. Marie Van Brittan Brown
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. W. Lincoln Hawkins, Ph.D.
Ans. Valerie Thomas
From 1964 to 1995, this scientist worked in a variety of capacities for NASA where she developed real-time
computer data systems, conducted large-scale experiments and managed various operations, projects and
facilities.
W. Valerie Thomas
X. Marie Van Brittan Brown
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. W. Lincoln Hawkins, Ph.D.
Ans. Valerie Thomas
In operation, concave mirrors are set up on both ends of the transmission. The net effect of this is an optical
illusion of a 3-dimensional image that looks real on the receiving end. This brilliant innovation placed This
Black scientist among the most prominent black inventors of the 20th century
W. Valerie Thomas
X. Marie Van Brittan Brown
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. W. Lincoln Hawkins, Ph.D.
Ans. Valerie Thomas
In 1966 this African-American inventor and partner Albert Brown, applied for an invention patent for a closedcircuit television security system – the forerunner to the modern home security system.
W. Valerie Thomas
X. Marie Van Brittan Brown
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. W. Lincoln Hawkins, Ph.D.
Ans. Marie Van Brittan Brown
This African American patented a wheelchair that climbs stairs.
W. Valerie Thomas
X. Marie Van Brittan Brown
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. W. Lincoln Hawkins, Ph.D.
Ans. Rufus J. Weaver
In technology, this Black scientist stands out, with 18 U.S. and 129 foreign patents. The first African-American
scientist to work for Bell Labs, this individual made universal telephone service possible by co-inventing a
chemical additive that prevents the plastic coating on telecommunications cables from deteriorating.
W. Clarence L. Elder
X. Mark Dean
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. Kenneth J. Dunkley
Ans. W. Lincoln Hawkins, Ph.D.
This African American from Baltimore earned a number of patents (1975- ) for their energy-saving "Occustat"
system, which uses motion detectors to allow thermostats to be lowered in a building's unoccupied rooms.
W. Clarence L. Elder
X. Mark Dean
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. Kenneth J. Dunkley
Ans. Clarence L. Elder
This individual’s collaborative invention paved the way for the growth in the Information Technology industry
by allowing the use of plug-in subsystems and peripherals like disk drives, video gear, speakers, and scanners.
W. Clarence L. Elder
X. Mark Dean
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. Kenneth J. Dunkley
Ans. Mark Dean
In 1997, this person received the Black Engineer of the Year President’s Award. Dean holds more than twenty
patents.
W. Clarence L. Elder
X. Mark Dean
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. Kenneth J. Dunkley
Ans. Mark Dean
Early in this scientist’s career at IBM, this person was chief engineer working with IBM personal computers.
The IBM PS/2 Models 70 and 80 and the Color Graphics Adapter are among his early work; he holds three of
IBM’s original nine PC patents.
W. Clarence L. Elder
X. Mark Dean
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. Kenneth J. Dunkley
Ans. Mark Dean
This Black American is best known for inventing Three Dimensional Viewing Glasses (3-DVG) – his patented
invention that displays 3-D effects from regular 2-D photos without any type of lenses, mirrors or optical
elements.
W. Clarence L. Elder
X. Mark Dean
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. Kenneth J. Dunkley
Ans. Kenneth J. Dunkley
By studying human vision, this African American scientist discovered blocking two points in a person's
peripheral vision will cause an ordinary picture to appear 3-Dimensional, resulting in the development of the 3DVG to block out these points.
W. Clarence L. Elder
X. Mark Dean
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. Kenneth J. Dunkley
Ans. Kenneth J. Dunkley
This Black Inventor, saw an inherent efficiency in the way bees construct and work with honeycomb and
determined computers that emulate this process could be the most efficient and powerful. In 1989, using 65,000
processors, emulating bees, this person invented the world's fastest computer, which performs computations at
3.1 billion calculations per second.
W. Philip Emeagwali
X. Betty Harris
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. James E. West
Ans. Dr. Philip Emeagwali
As one of the most famous African-American inventors of the 20th century, this Black scientist also has won
the Gordon Bell Prize – the Nobel Prize for computation.
W. Philip Emeagwali
X. Betty Harris
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. James E. West
Ans. Dr. Philip Emeagwali
This Black Scientist’s high performing computers are currently being used to forecast the weather and to predict
the likelihood and effects of future global warming.
W. Philip Emeagwali
X. Betty Harris
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. James E. West
Ans. Dr. Philip Emeagwali
This African American obtained a patent for their invention of a spot test for identifying explosives in a field
environment’
W. Philip Emeagwali
X. Betty Harris
Y. Rufus J. Weaver
Z. James E. West
Ans. Betty Harris
The chemist is a research associate and project manager at Kodak in New York. A native of St. Marc, Haiti,
Molaire is the recipient of 28 U.S. patents and more than 65 foreign patents for his work in material sciences, in
the areas of laser printing and optical recording.
W. James E. West
X. Dennis Weatherby
Y. John Henry Thompson
Z. Michel Molaire
Ans. Michel Molaire
In 1984,this person received the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories C.E.K. Mees Award for excellence in
scientific research and reporting, and later was inducted into the company's Distinguished Inventor's Gallery
W. James E. West
X. Dennis Weatherby
Y. John Henry Thompson
Z. Michel Molaire
Ans. Michel Molaire
This person is one of the most prolific inventors of recent time. Now 81, this individual has more than 20
patents, but is best known for creating the Whizzzer, a friction-activated spinning top that has become one of
the world's best-selling toys.
W. Philip Emeagwali
X. Betty Harris
Y. Paul Brown
Z. James E. West
Ans. Paul Brown
This individual created the lemon formula in Cascade dishwashing liquid while working as a process engineer
at Procter & Gamble Co. in Cincinnati, Ohio. His invention is now the basis for the composition of all "lemon"
cleaning products that contain bleach.
W. James E. West
X. Dennis Weatherby
Y. John Henry Thompson
Z. Michel Molaire
Ans. Dennis Weatherby
This person received a patent for disposable underwear hoping to revolutionize the female and male
hygiene market. Made from an inexpensive rayon, non-woven material and a patented pouch. Medical
uses, including incontinence and post-operative recovery.
W. Philip Emeagwali
X. Betty Harris
Y. Paul Brown
Z. Tanya Allen
Ans. Tanya Allen
A native of Detroit, this African American has already secured contracts with labor and delivery
departments at several hospitals, including The Detroit Medical Center and Botsford Hospital for their
patented disposable underwear.
W. Philip Emeagwali
X. Betty Harris
Y. Paul Brown
Z. Tanya Allen
Ans. Tanya Allen
A native of Detroit, this person invented a fertilizer to help food and plants grow larger. The molecular
scientist calls her nutrient Way-t'-GRO!, a single molecule compound fashioned from non-toxic, allorganic components.
W. Dawn Francis
X. Betty Harris
Y. Paul Brown
Z. Tanya Allen
Ans. Dawn Francis
This African American used Lingo in one of his better-known computer inventions, Macromedia™ Director.
Macromedia™ Director is able to incorporate different graphic formats (such as BMP, AVI, JPEG, QuickTime,
PNG, RealVideo and vector graphics) to create multi-media content and applications, thus combining computer
programming language with visual art.
W. James E. West
X. Dennis Weatherby
Y. John Henry Thompson
Z. Michel Molaire
Ans. John Henry Thompson
Ninety percent of microphones used today are based on the ingenuity of this person, an African-American
inventor born in 1931 in Prince Edwards County, VA. If you’ve ever talked on the telephone, you’ve probably
used his invention.
W. James E. West
X. Dennis Weatherby
Y. John Henry Thompson
Z. Michel Molaire
Ans. James E. West
This person has received numerous awards and honors including a Fellow of IEEE, Industrial Research
Institute's 1998 Achievement Award, 1995 Inventor of the Year from the State of New Jersey and induction in
the Inventors Hall of Fame in 1999. Additionally, this person holds47 US patents and more than 200 foreign
patents from his 40-year career with Bell Laboratories.
W. James E. West
X. Dennis Weatherby
Y. John Henry Thompson
Z. Michel Molaire
Ans. James E. West
What is the percentage of Black women of all Black mathematicians?
W. 50 %
X. 75%
Y. 10%
Z. 25%
Ans. Z. 25%
Who was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in mathematics from Catholic University?
W. Evelyn Boyd Granville
X. Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Y. Gloria Ford Gilmer
Z. Majorie Lee Brown
Ans. X. Euphemia Lofton Haynes
The first African American woman to publish a non-Ph.D.-thesis mathematics research paper.
W. Evelyn Boyd Granville
X. Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Y. Gloria Ford Gilmer
Z. Majorie Lee Brown
Ans. Y. Gloria Ford Gilmer
In 1950, she was the third African American woman to earn Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of
Michigan.
W. Evelyn Boyd Granville
X. Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Y. Gloria Ford Gilmer
Z. Majorie Lee Brown
Ans. Z. Majorie Lee Brown
Finished her Ph.D. thesis at the University of Michigan, but was not awarded the degree until February of the
next year,1950.
W. Evelyn Boyd Granville
X. Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Y. Gloria Ford Gilmer
Z. Majorie Lee Brown
Ans. Z. Majorie Lee Brown
In 1950, she accepted the position of associate professor of mathematics at Fisk University, a noted black
college in Nashville, Tennessee. At Fisk, Boyd she taught two students, Vivienne Malone Mayes and Etta Zuber
Falconer, who would be, respectively, the seventh and eleventh, African American women to receive Ph.D.'s in
Mathematics.
W. Evelyn Boyd Granville
X. Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Y. Gloria Ford Gilmer
Z. Majorie Lee Brown
Ans. W. Evelyn Boyd Granville
This female mathematician took a year of postdoctoral research at New York University's Institute of
Mathematics and Science. Apparently because of housing discrimination, she was unable to find an apartment
in New York.
W. Evelyn Boyd Granville
X. Euphemia Lofton Haynes
Y. Gloria Ford Gilmer
Z. Majorie Lee Brown
Ans. W. Evelyn Boyd Granville
Her thesis, in Group Theory, was approved in January of 1961; however, she died of cancer in May. She was
awarded the Ph.D. posthumously in 1961.
W. Georgia Caldwell Smith
X. Eleanor Green Dawley Jones
Y. Genevieve Madeline Knight
Z. Vivienne Malone Mayes
Ans. Georgia Caldwell Smith
She decided to further her graduate work at the University of Virginia and other Virginia schools did not allow
blacks to enter graduate work. Thus, in 1962, so she quit her position at Hampton and moved, with her young
children, to Syracuse New York, where she supported her family while pursuing graduate work.
W. Georgia Caldwell Smith
X. Eleanor Green Dawley Jones
Y. Genevieve Madeline Knight
Z. Vivienne Malone Mayes
Ans. Eleanor Green Dawley Jones
She grew up in the South and both of her sisters became math and science teachers. After the Russians orbited
the first satellite (1956), Sputnik, the government put vast amounts of money to science and mathematics
education. She chose mathematics "because it had fewer labs than any of the sciences."
W. Georgia Caldwell Smith
X. Eleanor Green Dawley Jones
Y. Genevieve Madeline Knight
Z. Vivienne Malone Mayes
Ans. Genevieve Madeline Knight
She went to University of Texas after her application for admission to graduate school at Baylor was rejected.
But after graduating, she was the first black, male or female, to be hired at Baylor and put on the tenure track. In
1986, she celebrated her 20th year of teaching at Baylor.
W. Georgia Caldwell Smith
X. Eleanor Green Dawley Jones
Y. Genevieve Madeline Knight
Z. Vivienne Malone Mayes
Ans. Vivienne Malone Mayes
From 1982 to 1985, she served as assistant to the chancellor for Southern University at Baton Rouge; later, she
became executive Vice Chancellor and Vice Chancellor for academic affairs. In the late eighties, she served as
chancellor for Southern University-Baton Rouge and Southern University-New Orleans.
W. Dolores Richard Spikes
X. Willie Hobbs Moore
Y. Rada Higgins McCreadie
Z. Fannie Gee
Ans Dolores Richard Spikes
She was the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Physics (University of Michigan Ann Arbor
1972) on Vibrational analysis of secondary chlorides
W. Dolores Richard Spikes
X. Willie Hobbs Moore
Y. Rada Higgins McCreadie
Z. Fannie Gee
Ans Willie Hobbs Moore
Her favorite problem is one she solved some years ago, while not employed in her field: A proof of the
generalized Pythagorean Equation on the basis of principles dating from the Egyptian papyri, dating from 1800
B.C. She is also an inventor of a parallel magnetic computer and a digital, sequential computer
W. Dolores Richard Spikes
X. Willie Hobbs Moore
Y. Rada Higgins McCreadie
Z. Fannie Gee
Ans. Rada Higgins McCreadie
There were only 42 students in her segregated high school class, all of whom had to take the same courses
which, in mathematics, ended with Algebra 2 taught by the Shop teacher who was also the assistant principal
who missed many classes. Thus, when she entered college, she was unprepared for mathematics studies.
W. Dolores Richard Spikes
X. Willie Hobbs Moore
Y. Rada Higgins McCreadie
Z. Fannie Gee
Ans. Z. Fannie Gee
The African Mathematical Union Commission on Women in Mathematics in Africa is founded with
Fellowship.
W. Grace Alele Williams
X. Joella Hardeman Gipson
Y. Katherine Adebola Okikiolu
Z. Mary Sylvester Deconge-Watson
Ans. Grace Alele Williams
Her primary interest has been in Mathematics Education, and in 1972 was Professor and Coordinator of
Mathematics in the Education Department of Wayne State University.
Fellowship.
W. Grace Alele Williams
X. Joella Hardeman Gipson
Y. Katherine Adebola Okikiolu
Z. Mary Sylvester Deconge-Watson
Ans. Joella Hardeman Gipson
The first Black to be awarded Mathematics' most prestigious young person's award, the Sloan Research
Fellowship.
W. Grace Alele Williams
X. Joella Hardeman Gipson
Y. Katherine Adebola Okikiolu
Z. Mary Sylvester Deconge-Watson
Ans Katherine Adebola Okikiolu
She is a nun in the holy order of the Sisters of S F and taught in high schools and colleges until 1964. She
appointed as an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana from 1968
to 1971.
W. Grace Alele Williams
X. Joella Hardeman Gipson
Y. Katherine Adebola Okikiolu
Z. Mary Sylvester Deconge-Watson
Ans. Mary Sylvester Deconge-Watson