Dorothy Walcott Weeks

Dorothy Walcott Weeks
Dorothy Walcott Weeks
	Left to right, upper: Dorothy Walcott Weeks, David Morse, lower: Bronisław Knaster, Kazimierz Kuratowski, at the International Mathematical Congress, Zürich 1932
Born	May 3, 1893; Philadelphia, PA
Died	June 4, 1990 (aged 97); Newton, MA
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Wellesley College (1916, BA); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1923, MS; 1930, PhD); Simmons College (1925, MS);
Awards	Guggenheim fellow; Wellesley College Alumnae Achievement Award;
	Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Watertown Arsenal; Wilson College; US Patent Office;
Thesis	A study of the interference of polarized light by the method of coherency matrices (1930)
Doctoral advisor	Norbert Wiener
Notable students	Pauline Morrow Austin

Dorothy Walcott Weeks (May 3, 1893 – June 4, 1990) was an American mathematician and physicist. Weeks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned degrees from Wellesley College, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Simmons College. Weeks was the first woman to receive a PhD in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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