| LC control no. | nr 00037283 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Granville, Evelyn B. |
| Variant(s) | Boyd, Evelyn |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Silver Spring (Md.) |
| Birth date | 1924-05-01 |
| Death date | 2023-06-27 |
| Place of birth | Washington (D.C.) |
| Place of death | Silver Spring (Md.) |
| Field of activity | Mathematics |
| Affiliation | Yale University United States. National Bureau of Standards International Business Machines Corporation Space Technology Laboratories, inc. National Aeronautic Association (U.S.) California State University, Los Angeles |
| Profession or occupation | Mathematicians College teachers Authors |
| Found in | On language series in the complex domain, 1949: t.p. (Evelyn Boyd; "[Granville]" inserted in pencil on Yale manuscript copy) LC in RLIN, Nov. 29, 20000 (heading: Granville, Evelyn B.; usage: Evelyn B. Granville) African American National Biography, accessed March 05, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Granville, Evelyn Boyd; mathematician, educator, educational reform advocate, textbook writer; born 01 May 1924 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States; graduated summa cum laude (1945) with honors in Mathematics from the all-female Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts; completing double master's degrees in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics in one year (1946) and earned her doctoral degree in Mathematics at Yale University; worked at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) (1952), at the Computation and Data Reduction Center of the Space Technology Laboratories of IBM, and the North American Aviation Company (NAA), which had been awarded a contract by NASA to help design the early Apollo space shuttle; was assistant professor of mathematics at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA)) Washington post WWW site, viewed July 17, 2023 (in obituary dated July 14, 2023: Evelyn Boyd Granville, one of the first Black women to receive a doctorate in mathematics from an American university and whose groundbreaking work in computers included helping calculate orbit trajectories and lunar-landing scenarios for the space program, died June 27 at her home in Silver Spring, Md. She was 99. Evelyn Boyd was born in Washington on May 1, 1924; second husband Edward Granville) |
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