Beatrice Aitchison

Beatrice Aitchison (Julai 18, 1908 - Septemba 22, 1997) alikuwa mwanahisabati, mwanatakwimu, na mwanauchumi wa Uchukuzi kutoka Marekani ambaye aliongoza Kitengo cha Uchumi wa Uchukuzi cha Idara ya Biashara ya Marekani,[1] na baadaye akawa mwanamke wa juu zaidi nchini Marekani. Huduma ya Posta na mteuliwa wa kwanza wa ngazi ya sera.[2]

Tuzo na kutambuliwa

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Tume ya Utumishi wa Umma ya Marekani ilimpa Aitchison mojawapo ya Tuzo zake za kwanza za Shirikisho la Mwanamke mwaka wa 1961 zilizochaguliwa kutoka katika nyanja ya zaidi ya 25,000,[3] kipande cha utambuzi ambacho kilimpa Aitchison ushawishi wa kumshinikiza Rais Lyndon Johnson kuandika amri ya utendaji inayopiga marufuku ubaguzi wa kijinsia. katika serikali ya U.S.[4]

Mnamo 1965, alichaguliwa kama Mwanachama wa Shirika la Takwimu la Marekani "kwa kazi ya upainia katika ukuzaji na utumiaji wa mbinu za takwimu za utafiti na uchambuzi wa trafiki na usafirishaji."[5] Alishinda Tuzo ya Huduma ya Kazi ya Huduma ya Kitaifa ya Umma. Ligi mwaka wa 1970.[6] Mnamo 1997, Chama cha Wahitimu wa Johns Hopkins kilimpa tuzo yao ya Woodrow Wilson "kwa huduma bora ya serikali".[7]

Aitchison amejumuishwa katika safu ya kadi za kucheza zinazojumuisha wanahisabati wanawake mashuhuri iliyochapishwa na Chama cha Wanawake katika Hisabati.[8]

Aitchison alikufa kwa kushindwa kwa moyo kutokana na msongamano wa moyo katika Hospitali ya Sibley Memorial huko Washington, D.C.[9] mnamo Septemba 22, 1997.[10]

Marejeo

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  1. Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009). Pioneering women in American mathematics: the pre-1940 PhD's. History of mathematics. Providence, R.I. : London: American Mathematical Society ; London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5. OCLC 243675272.
  2. "Chapter One". Women & History. 2 (8): 7–15. 1984-03-26. doi:10.1300/j304v02n08_03. ISSN 0276-3885.
  3. John, Richard R. (2000-02). Davis, William Augustine (1809-1875), postal official. American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  4. Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009). Pioneering women in American mathematics: the pre-1940 PhD's. History of mathematics. Providence, R.I. : London: American Mathematical Society ; London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5. OCLC 243675272.
  5. "New ASA Fellows—1965". The American Statistician (kwa Kiingereza). 19 (4): 37–38. 1965-10. doi:10.1080/00031305.1965.10479746. ISSN 0003-1305. {{cite journal}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  6. Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009). Pioneering women in American mathematics: the pre-1940 PhD's. History of mathematics. Providence, R.I. : London: American Mathematical Society ; London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5. OCLC 243675272.
  7. "Annual Alumni Exercises June 11, 1902". doi:10.31096/wua066-commencement-commencement1902alumni. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. Davis, Chandler (2022), "Mathematicians Action Group and the Founding of AWM", Fifty Years of Women in Mathematics, Springer International Publishing, ku. 25–30, ISBN 978-3-030-82657-4, iliwekwa mnamo 2024-04-13
  9. John, Richard R. (2000-02). Davis, William Augustine (1809-1875), postal official. American National Biography Online. Oxford University Press. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  10. Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2009). Pioneering women in American mathematics: the pre-1940 PhD's. History of mathematics. Providence, R.I. : London: American Mathematical Society ; London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5. OCLC 243675272.