Julia Hall Bowman Robinson

1. Julia Hall Bowman Robinson By: Loryn Kimble

2. Biography • Julia Hall Bowman Robinson was born on December 8th 1919 in St. Louis, Missouri. 2 years later, her mom died and her sister moved to Phoenix to live with their grandmother. When she was 9, she got scarlet fever and survived, a year later she developed rheumatic fever. After she recovered, she had a tutor from 5th to 8th grade.

3. Juliaand her math • The Davis-Putnam-Robinson paper was presented in 1961. She worked on the problem for over twenty years, building a foundation which Yuri Matijasevic used in 1970 to prove that there is not a general method for determining solvability. Robinson became the first woman mathematician to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1975. She earned an appointment of full professor at Berkeley in 1976. In 1979, Smith College granted her an honorary degree. She was elected to the Association of Presidents of Scientific Societies as President, but she had to step down due to her health. In 1982, she became the first woman president of the American Mathematical Society after four years of being the first woman officer of the society. Around this time, she also was awarded the MacArthur Foundation Prize Fellowship of $60,000

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