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Dorothy Walcott Weeks

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American mathematician

United StatesAcademicsLived 1893 to 1990 · aged 97
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Dorothy Walcott Weeks 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.

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1949Guggenheim Fellowship

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Dorothy Walcott Weeks 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. Weeks was the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Lived 1893 to 1990 · aged 97
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