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Marjorie Lee Browne was born on 2 July, 1914 in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American mathematician, educator. Discover Marjorie Lee Browne's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 2 July 1914
Birthday 2 July
Birthplace Atlanta, Georgia
Date of death 19 October, 1979
Died Place Durham, North Carolina
Nationality United States

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1914

Marjorie Lee Browne (September 9, 1914 – October 19, 1979) was a mathematics educator.

She was one of the first African-American women to receive a PhD in mathematics.

Browne was born on September 9, 1914, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Mary Taylor Lee and Lawrence Johnson Lee.

Her father, a railway postal clerk remarried shortly after his wife's death, when Browne was almost two years old.

He and his second wife, Lottie, a school teacher, encouraged their daughter to take her studies seriously as she was a gifted student.

Browne attended LeMoyne High School, a private Methodist school that was started after the Civil War.

1929

During her schooling, she won the Memphis City Women's Tennis Singles Championship in 1929 and two years later graduated from LeMoyne High School.

1935

She attended Howard University, majoring in mathematics and graduating cum laude in 1935.

After receiving her bachelor's degree, she taught high school and college for a short term, including at Gilbert Academy in New Orleans.

She then applied to the University of Michigan graduate program in mathematics.

Michigan accepted African Americans, while many other US educational institutions did not at the time.

1943

Euphemia Haynes was the very first African-American woman in the US to earn a doctorate in mathematics, having earned hers in 1943.

After receiving her doctorate, Browne was unable to keep a teaching position at a research institution.

As a result of this, she worked with secondary school mathematics teachers, instructing them in "modern math."

She focused especially on encouraging math education for minorities and women.

Browne then joined the faculty at North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University (NCCU)), where she taught and researched for thirty years.

1949

Marjorie Lee Browne was a prominent mathematician and educator who, in 1949, became only the third African-American woman to earn a doctorate in her field.

After working full-time at the historically black Wiley College in Marshall, Texas, and attending Michigan only during the summer, Browne's work paid off and she received a teaching fellowship at Michigan, attending full-time and completing her dissertation in 1949.

Her dissertation, "Studies of One Parameter Subgroups of Certain Topological and Matrix Groups," was supervised by George Yuri Rainich.

She was one of the first African-American women in the US to earn a doctorate in mathematics, along with Evelyn Boyd Granville, who also earned a Ph.D. in 1949.

1951

She was also the head of the department for much of her time at NCCU, from 1951 to 1970.

There she worked as principal investigator, coordinator of the mathematics section, and lecturer for the Summer Institute for Secondary School Science and Mathematics Teachers.

1960

Browne saw the importance of computer science early on, writing a $60,000 grant to IBM to bring a computer to NCCU in 1960—one of the first computers in academic computing, and probably the first at a historically black school.

Throughout her career, Browne worked to help gifted mathematics students, educating them and offering them financial support to pursue higher education.

Notable students included Joseph Battle, William Fletcher, Asamoah Nkwanta, and Nathan Simms.

She established summer institutes to provide continuing education in mathematics for high school teachers.

1974

In 1974 she was awarded the first W. W. Rankin Memorial Award from the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics for her work with mathematics education.

She was a member of the Women's Research Society, American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, and the International Congress of Mathematicians.

While discrimination against African Americans and women was significant during Browne's early career, she was recognized for her achievements in education and mathematics.

1979

Marjorie Lee Browne died of a heart attack in Durham, North Carolina, on October 19, 1979.

After her death, four of her students established the Marjorie Lee Brown Trust Fund at North Carolina Central University which sponsors the Marjorie Lee Browne Scholarship and the Marjorie Lee Browne Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series.

1999

Since 1999, the Mathematics Department at the University of Michigan has hosted the Marjorie Lee Browne Colloquium, which annually brings a speaker "to present a talk that highlights their research but also addresses the issue of diversity in the sciences."

Browne's work on classical groups demonstrated simple proofs of important topological properties of and relations between classical groups.

Her work in general focused on linear and matrix algebra.