About Marjorie Lee Browne:
Dates: September 9, 1914 - October 19, 1979
Occupation: educator, mathematician
Known for: one of first two (or three?) black women to receive a doctorate in mathematics in the United States, 1949; in 1960, Marjorie Lee Browne wrote a grant to IBM to bring a computer to a college campus -- one of the first such college computers, and likely the first at any historically black college
Family, Background:
- father: Lawrence Johnson Lee, railway postal clerk
- mother died when Browne was two
- stepmother: Lottie Taylor Lee or Mary Taylor Lee, teacher
Education:
- LeMoyne High School (Methodist school for African Americans)
- Howard University, B.S., mathematics, 1935, cum laude
- University of Michigan, M.S., mathematics, 1939
- University of Michigan, Ph.D., mathematics, 1949
Taught at:
- Gilbert Academy in New Orleans
- Wiley College, Marshall, Texas, 1942 - 1945
- North Carolina College (later North Carolina Central University, NCUU), 1950? - 1975; chair of the mathematics department from 1951
- Summer Institute for Secondary School Science and Mathematics Teachers, under a National Science Foundation grant through NCCU, 1957
Fellowships:
- Ford Foundation fellowship, 1952-1953, Cambridge University, combinatorial topology
- National Science Foundation Faculty Fellow, University of California, computing and numerical analysis
- Fellowship, Columbia University, 1965-1966, differential topology
