Complex sentence: Mary Frances Winston Newson (August 7,1869-December 5,1959) was an American mathematician, the first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university, the University of Göttingen in Germany.
Split into simpler sentences: Mary Frances Winston Newson (August 7,1869-December 5,1959) was an American mathematician. She became the first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university, namely the University of Göttingen in Germany.