William Caspar Graustein

William Caspar Graustein
Left to right, upper: Graustein, Smith, lower: Rellich, Mary Graustein, at the ICM, Zürich 1932.
Born(1888-11-15)15 November 1888
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Died22 January 1941(1941-01-22) (aged 52)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
SpouseMary Florence (nee Curtis)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsHarvard University
Doctoral advisorEduard Study

William Caspar Graustein (15 November 1888 – 22 January 1941) was an American mathematician. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1910[1] and later became an instructor at Harvard University. In 1921, he married Mary Curtis Graustein (1884—1972), who was the first American woman to earn a mathematics Ph.D. (1917) from Radcliffe College.[2]

He died in an automobile accident, at the age of 52. At the time, Graustein was professor of mathematics and assistant dean at Harvard.[2]

  1. ^ Coolidge, J. L. (2017-01-27). "William Caspar Graustein—In memoriam". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 47 (5): 343–349. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1941-07433-1. ISSN 0002-9904.
  2. ^ a b Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2008). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics — The Pre-1940 PhD's. History of Mathematics. Vol. 34 (1st ed.). American Mathematical Society, The London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5. Mary Florence (Curtis) Graustein biography on p.213-215 of the Supplementary Material at AMS