Dorothy Walcott Weeks | |
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 Left to right, upper: Dorothy Walcott Weeks, David Morse, lower: Bronisław Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, at the International Mathematical Congress, Zürich 1932 | |
| Born | May 3, 1893 Philadelphia, PA |
| Died | June 4, 1990 (aged 97) Newton, MA |
| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Physics |
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| Thesis | A study of the interference of polarized light by the method of coherency matrices (1930) |
| Doctoral advisor | Norbert Wiener |
| Notable students | Pauline Morrow Austin |
Dorothy Walcott Weeks (May 3, 1893 – June 4, 1990) was an American mathematician and physicist. Weeks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned degrees from Wellesley College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Simmons College.[1] Weeks was the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2][3]
- ^ Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. American Mathematical Society. pp. 308–09. Biography on p.621-626 of the Supplementary Material at AMS
- ^ "Collection: Dorothy W. Weeks papers | MIT ArchivesSpace". archivesspace.mit.edu. Retrieved 2021-09-24.
- ^ Alumnae Achievement Awards 1983, Wellseley College, retrieved 22 December 2014