Mary Frances Winston Newson

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Mary Frances Winston Newson (August 7, 1869  December 5, 1959) was an American mathematician. She became the first female American to receive a PhD in mathematics from a European university, namely the University of Göttingen in Germany.[1] She was also the first person to translate Hilbert's problems into English.

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Mary Frances Winston Newson