"The women who earned their Ph.D.'s in mathematics during the forties and fifties include some of the most distinguished mathematicians and mathematics educators of this century. Julia Robinson, Cathleen Morawetz, and Mary Ellen Rudin are probably the best-known women mathematicians of this generation."
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Cathleen Synge Morawetz
(May 5, 1923 – August 8, 2017) was a Canadian mathematician who spent her career working as an applied mathematician in the United States. She was the president of the for a two-year term from 1995 to 1996. In 1998 she was awarded the USA's .
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