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Sources

http://www.biography.com/people/marjorie-lee-browne-5602

Events During 1930s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie_Lee_Browne

  • The Great Depression
  • The New Deal
  • The First Hundred Day
  • Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo
  • Germany invades Poland.

Teaching Career

  • In 1951, she was named Chair of the Mathematics Department.
  • Browne taught both graduate and undergraduate course at North Carolina Central University
  • In the early 1950s she was awarded a Ford Foundation grant that allowed her to attend Cambridge University.

Awards and Achivements

  • First women to get a doctorate degree in Mathematics.
  • First W.W Rankin Memorial Award for Excellence in Mathematics Education
  • Marjorie Browne severed as a member in Many different organizations, including Women's Research Society; the American Mathematical Society; and the Mathematical Association of America.
  • Also, Browne was one of the first African-American women to serve as a member of the advisory council to the National Science Foundation

Family Life

Education

Bio

Attended

  • LeMeyone High School
  • University of Michigan
  • Cambridge University
  • Howard University
  • The daughter of Mary Taylor Lee and her husband Lawrence Johnson Lee.
  • Her real mom died when she was 2.
  • Her father, a transportation postal clerk with an astute appreciation for numbers.

Her being the first black women to get a doctorate in mathematics inspire more women to expand their learning in mathematics

  • Marjorie Lee Brown
  • Born on September 9, 1914 in Tennessee.
  • Died on October 19, 1979 in North Carolina.

Browne left North Carolina Central University in 1979. Sadly, however, her retirement didn´t last that long. On October 19 of that year she died of a heart attack at her home in Durham, North Carolina.

Marjorie Lee Browne

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