Florence Eliza Allen

Florence Eliza Allen (October 4, 1876 – December 31, 1960) was an American mathematician and women's suffrage activist.[1][2] In 1907 she became the second woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the fourth Ph.D. overall from that department.

Biography

Allen was born in Horicon, Wisconsin. She had an older brother and her father was a lawyer.

Florence Allen got her Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from University of Wisconsin in 1900. She was a member of Phi Beta Kappa as an undergrad, and Delta Delta Delta as a Ph.D.[1][2] She held leadership positions in a fine arts-literary society for women, She stayed at University of Wisconsin as a resident and achieved her Master's degree in 1901.[3]

Florence Allen continued to work at University of Wisconsin as an assistant and became an instructor in 1902. She attained her doctorate in 1907 in geometry. She stayed at her position at University of Wisconsin; she became an assistant professor in 1945, and retired in 1947.[3] She died at the age of 84 in 1960 in Madison, Wisconsin.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 "Biographies of Women Mathematicians". Agnes Scott College. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  2. 1 2 Leonard, John William (1914). Woman's Who's Who of America. New York: American Commonwealth Company. p. 43. ISBN 0-8103-4018-6.
  3. 1 2 3 Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics: The Pre-1940 PhD's. American Mathematical Soc. p. 123.
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