1962:
Mina Rees became the first woman to win the
Mathematical Association of America's highest honor, the Yueh-Gin Gung and Dr. Charles Y. Hu Award for Distinguished Service to Mathematics.[4]
The
Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) was founded. It is a professional society whose mission is to encourage women and girls to study and to have active careers in the mathematical sciences, and to promote equal opportunity for and the equal treatment of women and girls in the mathematical sciences. It is incorporated in the state of Massachusetts.[12]
1973:
Jean Taylor published her dissertation on "Regularity of the Singular Set of Two-Dimensional Area-Minimizing Flat Chains Modulo 3 in R3" which solved a long-standing problem about length and smoothness of soap-film triple function curves.[14]
1975–1977:
Marjorie Rice, who had no formal training in mathematics beyond high school, discovered three new types of tessellating pentagons and more than sixty distinct tessellations by pentagons.[16]
1975:
Julia Robinson became the first female mathematician elected to the National Academy of Sciences.[17]
Mary Ellen Rudin became the first woman to present the MAA's Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures, intended to showcase skilled expositors and enrich the understanding of instructors of college-level mathematics.[4]
1996:
Joan Birman became the first woman to receive the MAA's
Chauvenet Prize, an annual award for expository articles.[4]
1998:
Melanie Wood became the first female American to make the U.S. International Math Olympiad Team. She won silver medals in the 1998 and 1999 International Mathematical Olympiads.[22]
Melanie Wood became the first woman to win the Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics by an Undergraduate Student. It is an annual award given to an undergraduate student in the US, Canada, or Mexico who demonstrates superior mathematics research.[25]
2006:
Stefanie Petermichl, a German
mathematical analyst then at the University of Texas at Austin, became the first woman to win the
Salem Prize, an annual award given to young mathematicians who have worked in
Raphael Salem's field of interest, chiefly topics in analysis related to Fourier series.[27][4] She shared the prize with
Artur Avila.[28]
2019:
Karen Uhlenbeck became the first woman to win the
Abel Prize, with the award committee citing "the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics."[31]