Dorothy Walcott Weeks
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Left to right, upper: Dorothy Walcott Weeks, David Morse, lower: Bronisław Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, at the International Mathematical Congress, Zürich 1932 | |
| Born | May 3, 1893 Philadelphia, PA |
| Died | June 4, 1990 (aged 97) Newton, MA |
| Nationality | American |
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| Fields | Physics |
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| Thesis | A study of the interference of polarized light by the method of coherency matrices (1930) |
| Doctoral advisor | Norbert Wiener |
| Notable students | Pauline Morrow Austin |
Dorothy Walcott Weeks (May 3, 1893 – June 4, 1990) was an American mathematician and physicist. Weeks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned degrees from Wellesley College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Simmons College. Weeks was the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.