Josephine Mitchell
Josephine Margaret Mitchell (born June 30, 1912 in Edmonton , † December 28, 2000 in Grand Island ) was a Canadian -American mathematician and university professor.
life and work
Mitchell studied mathematics at the University of Alberta (Bachelor in 1935), received her master's degree in 1941 at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania , where she received her doctorate in 1942 with Hilda Geiringer with the dissertation On Double Sturm-Liouville Series . She taught at small colleges and got a position at the University of Illinois in 1948 . In 1953 she married the mathematician Lowell Schoenfeld . The University of Illinois then informed Mitchell that her position could not be renewed due to the then common nepotism rules (her husband Lowell Schoenfield was also employed at the university), even though her husband came to the university after her. Both protested in vain except at their university at the American Association of University Professors and the American Association of University Women, among others, left the University of Illinois and found after some wandering around (Josephine Mitchell was at the Westinhouse Research Laboratories and in 1958 an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh ) only shared a position at Pennsylvania State University in 1958 , which at the time was one of the few American universities to accept married couples as professors. From 1968 until her retirement in 1982 she was like her husband a professor at the University at Buffalo . In her honor, her husband left a $ 1.6 million legacy on her behalf to support various initiatives within the University of Alberta's math and statistics department, including foundations to fund the Dr. Josephine M. Mitchell Library and the Dr. Josephine M. Mitchell graduate scholarships.
The couple enjoyed hiking, canoeing and studying wild plants in nature. They bequeathed their collection of Eskimo art to Carleton University .
literature
- Patricia Kenschaft: Change is Possible: Stories of Women and Minorities in Mathematics. American Mathematical Society , 2005 ISBN 978-0821837481 p. 74
Web links
- Josephine M. Mitchell , dedicated website at the University of Alberta
- Women becoming mathematicians , short entry
- Prabook, detailed entry
Individual evidence
- ↑ Josephine Mitchell in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ Patricia Kenschaft, Change Is Possible: Stories of Women and Minorities in Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, pp. 74ff, photo by Mitchell, p. 75
- ^ American Mathematical Monthly, 1958
- ↑ Sanattiaqsimajut: Inuit art from the Carleton University Art Gallery collection , Carleton University 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mitchell, Josephine |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mitchell, Josephine Margaret |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-American mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Edmonton |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 2000 |
| Place of death | Grand Island NY |