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American mathematician (1923–2011)
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J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., Ph.D. (1923-2011)
ANS President 1974-1975
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. was elected the 20th president of the American Nuclear Society (ANS). He was elevated to Fellow of ANS in 1964.
Dr. Wilkins was born on November 27, 1923. He entered the University of Chicago in 1936 when only 13 years old and in so doing he became the youngest ever student at that university. He graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1940 at the age of 17, and a Ph.D. in December 1942, at the age of 19. He went on to study at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1942.
In 1943-44 Wilkins taught at the Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University). This was the first year that Tuskegee offered graduate-level instruction. He then returned to the University of Chicago where he worked on the Manhattan Project in the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1944 to 1946 on a method for the production of the fissionable material plutonium-239.
After leaving the Manhattan Project in 1946, Wilkins worked in industry. He was a mathematician at the American Optical Company in Buffalo, N.Y., from 1946 to 1950. From 1950 to 1960 he worked as a mathematician at the United Nuclear Corporation of America in White Plains, New York. He became Manager of the Mathematics
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Born: November 27, 1923
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois
A.B. Mathematics (1940) Uiversity of Chicago; M.s. Mathematics (1941).
Ph.D. Mathematics (1942) University of Chicago
thesis: Multiple Integral Problems in Parametric Form in the Calculus of Variations; Advisor: Magnus Hestenes
additional degrees: Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering (1957) New York University; Masters of Mechanical Engineering (1960) New York University
Research Interests: Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, Nuclear Engineering
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Chicago Lawyer J. Ernest Wilkins (Sr), son of a Missouri Baptist preacher, is the only Negro ever to attain the title of assistant secretary in the Federal Government. He attained it last March, when President Eisenhower appointed him Assistant Secretary of Labor for International Affairs. Last week, with Secretary James Mitchell and Under Secretary Arthur Larson out of town on speechmaking trips, brainy Ernest Wilkins, 60, became the first Negro ever to attend a White House Cabinet meeting as the representative of a department. He was appointed to the 1958 Civil Rights Commission. |
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