Mary frances winston newton biography
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Mary Frances Winston Newson
August 7, 1869 - December 5, 1959
Mary Frances Winston, the first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics from a European university, was born in Forreston, Illinois, one of seven children of Thomas Winston, a country doctor, and his wife Caroline.
After being taught at home by her mother, she left Illinois at the age of 15, along with her brother, to enroll at the University of Wisconsin.
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Winston graduated from Wisconsin in 1889 with a classical degree with honors in mathematics.
After a brief stint as an instructor in mathematics at Downer College in Fox Lake, Wisconsin, from 1889-1891, Winston received a fellowship in mathematics to study at Bryn Mawr College with Charlotte Scott.
She stayed at Bryn Mawr for only one year, however, before returning to Illinois to study at the University of Chicago during 1892-1893. During the summer of 1893 Winston attended the International Mathematical Congress at the World's Columbian Exposition i