Aubrey Edward Landry | |
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Born |
Memramcook,
Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada | November 24, 1880
Died | May 3, 1972 Bethesda, Maryland, USA | (aged 91)
Citizenship | United States (naturalized October 6, 1913) [1] |
Aubrey Edward Landry (1880–1972) was a Canadian-American mathematician. He was the dissertation director of many of the earliest women to earn doctorates in mathematics in the United States, including the first African American woman, Euphemia Haynes. [2]
He was born in Westmorland, New Brunswick, to Elizabeth R. "Eliza" McSweeney Landry and Tilman T. Landry, and was the oldest of nine children. He received an AB degree (bachelor's) from Harvard University in 1900, a PhD at The Johns Hopkins University in 1907 with the dissertation: "A Geometrical Application of Binary Syzygies" under Frank Morley. [3]
Landry's dissertation director was Frank Morley, himself also a frequent advisor to women doctoral candidates (see inset quote below). [4] Landry spent his career at Catholic University of America, where he began as a teaching fellow following his grad uation from Harvard. He joined the permanent faculty after receiving his doctorate at Johns Hopkins. He directed 28 dissertations until his retirement in 1952, out of which 18 went to women. [5] Lenore Blum writes,
Of 229 pre-1940 [women] Ph.D.s in mathematics, more than a third were advised by eight mathematicians: Charlotte Angas Scott and Anna Pell Wheeler (at Bryn Mawr), and six men— Frank Morley (at Johns Hopkins) and A. B. Coble (at Johns Hopkins and Illinois), Aubrey Landry (at Catholic University), Virgil Snyder (at Cornell), and Gilbert Ames Bliss and L. E. Dickson (both at Chicago, where together they advised 30 women Ph.D.s). It is not hard to surmise that each of these men felt secure in his position in mathematics... all but one were at one time president of the American Mathematical Society! [6]
All but two of these women were Roman Catholic sisters, a historical phenomenon nationwide because Catholic men's universities were sometimes open by special arrangement to nuns. [7]
This list is incomplete, as Landry directed the dissertations of at least 18 women. Some of these come from the Mathematics Genealogy Project, and others from Pioneering Women in American Mathematics. [8]
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Aubrey Edward Landry | |
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Born |
Memramcook,
Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada | November 24, 1880
Died | May 3, 1972 Bethesda, Maryland, USA | (aged 91)
Citizenship | United States (naturalized October 6, 1913) [1] |
Aubrey Edward Landry (1880–1972) was a Canadian-American mathematician. He was the dissertation director of many of the earliest women to earn doctorates in mathematics in the United States, including the first African American woman, Euphemia Haynes. [2]
He was born in Westmorland, New Brunswick, to Elizabeth R. "Eliza" McSweeney Landry and Tilman T. Landry, and was the oldest of nine children. He received an AB degree (bachelor's) from Harvard University in 1900, a PhD at The Johns Hopkins University in 1907 with the dissertation: "A Geometrical Application of Binary Syzygies" under Frank Morley. [3]
Landry's dissertation director was Frank Morley, himself also a frequent advisor to women doctoral candidates (see inset quote below). [4] Landry spent his career at Catholic University of America, where he began as a teaching fellow following his grad uation from Harvard. He joined the permanent faculty after receiving his doctorate at Johns Hopkins. He directed 28 dissertations until his retirement in 1952, out of which 18 went to women. [5] Lenore Blum writes,
Of 229 pre-1940 [women] Ph.D.s in mathematics, more than a third were advised by eight mathematicians: Charlotte Angas Scott and Anna Pell Wheeler (at Bryn Mawr), and six men— Frank Morley (at Johns Hopkins) and A. B. Coble (at Johns Hopkins and Illinois), Aubrey Landry (at Catholic University), Virgil Snyder (at Cornell), and Gilbert Ames Bliss and L. E. Dickson (both at Chicago, where together they advised 30 women Ph.D.s). It is not hard to surmise that each of these men felt secure in his position in mathematics... all but one were at one time president of the American Mathematical Society! [6]
All but two of these women were Roman Catholic sisters, a historical phenomenon nationwide because Catholic men's universities were sometimes open by special arrangement to nuns. [7]
This list is incomplete, as Landry directed the dissertations of at least 18 women. Some of these come from the Mathematics Genealogy Project, and others from Pioneering Women in American Mathematics. [8]
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (
link)