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Jesse Ernest Wilkins Jr. (November 27, 1923 – May 1, 2011) [1] was an American nuclear scientist, mechanical engineer and mathematician. A child prodigy , he attended the University of Chicago at the age of 13, becoming its youngest ever student.
[27] [28] Child prodigy J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. came from a prominent black family in Chicago. He entered the University of Chicago at age 13. When he received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University in 1942 he was only 19. Wilkins taught at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1942 to 1944, and joined the Manhattan Project in 1944. [29]
1976: Howard University establishes the first PhD program in mathematics at a historically black college or university under mathematics department chair James Donaldson and professor J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. [15] 1980: The Claytor Lecture – now the Claytor-Woodard Lecture in honor of William W S Claytor and Dudley Weldon Woodard – is ...
Wilkins, J. Ernest Jr. 1923–2011 Mathematician, engineer, nuclear scientist: Entered University of Chicago at age 13; PhD at 19; worked on the Manhattan Project; wrote more than 100 scientific papers; helped recruit minorities into the sciences [190] [191] [192] Williams, Daniel: 1856–1931 Surgeon
As the U.S. comes together to celebrate his life and legacy on Monday, Jan. 15, 2024, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, TIME has compiled a number of lesser-known facts about the man whose ...
Ernest Gebhardt Jr. of Monroe, with the National Historic Cheesemaking Center Museum, samples a selection of spreadable cheeses during the 2024 World Championship Cheese Contest on March 5, 2024 ...
J. Ernest Wilkins Sr. (1894–1959), African American lawyer, labor leader and undersecretary in the Eisenhower administration J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1923–2011), mathematician and nuclear scientist Topics referred to by the same term
The Rayford Wilkins, Jr. Stock Index From January 2011 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Rayford Wilkins, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 43.7 percent return on your investment, compared to a 12.1 percent return from the S&P 500.