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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.
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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 ...
[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]
Ernest Wilkins may refer to: 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
Los Angeles police are asking for the public’s help to locate witnesses and potential victims in the case of a Hollywood photographer charged with sexually assaulting three young men aspiring to ...
Apr. 10—Former Permian legendary head football coach John Wilkins will be inducted into this year's Texas High School Football Hall of Fame and his son John Wilkins Jr. is trying to get the word ...
3 sons, including J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. Jesse Ernest Wilkins Sr. (February 1, 1894 – January 19, 1959) [ 1 ] was a U.S. lawyer , labor leader , undersecretary in the Eisenhower administration and both the first African-American to be appointed to a sub-cabinet position in the United States Government and the first to attend White House ...