Timeline of women in mathematics in the United States

There is a long history of women appearances in mathematics in the United States. All women mentioned here are American unless otherwise noted.

Timeline
19th Century
 1829: The first public test of an American girl in geometry was held.
 1886: Winifred Edgerton Merrill became the first American woman to earn a PhD in mathematics, which she earned from Columbia University.

20th Century
 1956: Gladys West began collecting data from satellites at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division. Her calculations directly impacted the development of accurate GPS systems.
 1983: Julia Robinson became the first female president of the American Mathematical Society, and the first female mathematician to be awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.
 1995: Margaret H. Wright became the first female president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.

21st Century
 2004: Alison Miller became the first female gold medal winner on the U.S. International Mathematical Olympiad Team.
 2019: Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win the Abel Prize.

Related pages
 American Mathematical Society
 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
 Timeline of women in mathematics

References

Further reading

  A Brief History of the Association for Women in Mathematics: The Presidents' Perspectives, by Lenore Blum (1991) 

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