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Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin was born in 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Russian immigrants and the first in her family to attend college. She earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1948 and her master's degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1950. Kolchin was a pioneer in the field of algebraic geometry, a branch of mathematics that studies the properties of solutions to polynomial equations. She was the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1953. Kolchin was a professor of mathematics at the University of Maryland from 1954 to 1965 and at the University of Michigan from 1965 to 1972. She was also a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago. Kolchin was a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. She was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1998 for her contributions to algebraic geometry. Kolchin was married to mathematician William Kolchin and had two children. She died in 2020 at the age of 92.

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2019

Eleanor Krawitz Kolchin (1927 - January 25, 2019) was an American mathematician, computer programmer, author, and teacher. She worked at Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University to calculate the orbit of planets, phases of the moon, and trajectories of asteroids using IBM tabulating machines. Her calculations were used in the Apollo program.

2014

In 2014, she was presented The National Center for Women & Information Technology's Pioneer Award.

1949

In 1949, she published an article describing the Watson Lab’s work. It has since been translated into over 20 languages.

1947

In 1947, Kolchin was hired to work at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Computing Laboratory at Columbia University. She was hired along with one woman and three men to take on a project at the Watson Laboratory operating tabulating machines for astrophysics. She simultaneously pursued a master's degree in Mathematics at Columbia while working in the laboratory.

1943

Eleanor attended Samuel J. Tilden High School where she took an interest in Euclidean geometry and graduated in 1943. She earned her B.A. in mathematics at Brooklyn College in January 1947. While there, she served as treasurer for Pi Mu Epsilon, the national mathematics honor society. After graduating, she applied and was accepted to Columbia University, where she took classes towards her master's degree in mathematics.