2018) was an American mathematician and an emeritus professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. Maria E. Schonbek is an Argentine-American mathematician at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research concerns fluid dynamics and associated partial differential equations such as the Navier–Stokes equations. Paul Schupp (born March 12, 1937) is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. George Roger Sell (February 7, 1937 – May 29, 2015) was an American mathematician, specializing in differential equations, dynamical systems, and applications to fluid dynamics, climate modeling, control systems, and other subjects. Charles Sims (mathematician) (April 14, 1937 – October 23, 2017) was an American mathematician best known for his work in group theory. Isadore Singer (May 3, 1924 – February 11, 2021) was an American mathematician. Christopher Skinner (born June 4, 1972) is an American mathematician working in number theory and arithmetic aspects of the Langlands program. Karen E. Smith (born 1965 in Red Bank, New Jersey) is an American mathematician, specializing in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. Kannan Soundararajan (born December 27, 1973) is an India-born American mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Stanford University. Irena Swanson is an American mathematician specializing in commutative algebra. Karen Uhlenbeck (born August 24, 1942) is an American mathematician and a founder of modern geometric analysis. Judy L. Walker is an American mathematician. She is the Aaron Douglas Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she chaired the mathematics department from 2012 through 2016 John H. Walter (born 14 December 1927, Los Angeles) is an American mathematician known for proving the Walter theorem in the theory of finite groups. Charles Weibel (born October 28, 1950 in Terre Haute, Indiana) is an American mathematician working on algebraic K-theory, algebraic geometry and homological algebra. Mathematicians: African American African American pioneers in the field of Mathematics Joseph Battle, Year of Ph.D. 1963 Marjorie Lee Browne, Year of Ph. D. 1950, arguably the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics Wade Ellis, Year of Ph.D. 1944 Dorothy McFadden Hoover ABD, featured in Margot Lee Shetterly's bestselling book, Hidden Figures Rogers Joseph Newman, Year of Ph.D. 1961 Joseph Alphonso Pierce, Year of Ph.D. 1938 Clarence F. Stephens, Year of Ph.D. 1944 Beauregard Stubblefield, Year of Ph.D. 1960 Irvin Elmer Vance, Year of Ph.D. 1967 Chelsea Walton, Year of Ph.D. 2011 Suzanne Weekes Year of Ph.D. 1995 Manhattan project A