Winifred Edgerton Merrill
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Winifred Edgerton, born in Ripon, Wisconsin, was the first American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. She earned her B.A. degree from Wellesley College in 1883. She attended Columbia University in Chicago after a short stay at Harvard. She was awarded the PhD, with high honors, by a unanimous vote of the board of trustees in 1886 after being rejected once.
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