Angie Turner King – Wikipedia

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Angie Lena Turner King , born Angie Lena Turner (Elkhorn, 9 December 1905 – Institute, 28 February 2004), was an American chemistry and mathematics, the third African American who graduated in chemistry and mathematics [first] and to obtain a doctorate of research in mathematics; He had a great influence on his students, including Margaret S. Collins and Katherine Johnson. [2]

Childhood and education [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

King was born in 1905 in Elkhorn, Western Virginia, a segregated community of coal miners. [2] [3] His grandparents had been slaves. She lived with her grandmother after her mother died when she was eight years old [2] And his father died in an accident in the mine. [3] He slept in a hut, where “in the winter, when he snowed, I woke up with the snow on my bed” and his clearest grandmother called her “the black bitch”. [2] He later lived with his grandfather and was therefore able to attend school. [3]

He had good votes and graduated from school over 14 years old (in 1919) but did not know the possibility of university scholarships. [2] King started teaching at the Bluefield Colord Institute (now Bluefield State College) then moving to West Virginia State College. He paid off his studies by working as a waitress at school and washing the dishes. [2] He graduated in mathematics and chemistry in 1927, with a thesis that reported his studies on tannic acid solutions and ferrous hydrogen oxides. [2] [3]

Career [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

King started teaching the West Virginia State College (WVSC) institute laboratory by studying at the University of Cornell in the summer. He got the master in chemistry and mathematics in 1931. [2] He got a chair at the WVSC and attended the University of Pittsburgh as a doctoranda. He obtained his doctorate in 1955 and his thesis was an algebra analysis in school textbooks before 1900. [4] His theses for the Master and his doctorate were his only publications. [2]

During the Second World War, as a response to the concern that the war would cause a deficiency of necessary graduates as military officers after the war, a military training program was established called Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP). ASTP was segregated and WVSC was one of the six black universities with an ASTP and King department taught chemical for the program. [5]

King’s career was distinguished from his tutoring and teaching with many students who attended post-graduate studies, including Katherine Johnson, Nasa scientist protagonist of many space programs including Apollo 11, Space Shuttle, the mission on Mars (one of the biographies narrated in the film The right to count). [2] Johnson considered it an important influence, saying that King was “a wonderful, bright, well -kept and very rigorous teacher”. [6] In a questionnaire to the former students of West Virginia State College, 27 of the 72 interviewees appointed King as their favorite teacher and most of them had continued their studies. [2] King received West Virginia State College Alumnus of the Year in 1954. [3]

King married Robert Elemore King in 1946 and had five daughters. [3] King lived on the WVSC campus until his death in 2004. [7]

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  1. ^ Hidden Figures: the story of Katherine Johnson told in the cinema , in Sheroes Mag , 8 Marzo 2017. URL consulted on 27 August 2017 (archived by URL Original on 27 August 2017) .
  2. ^ a b c d It is f g h i j k ( IN ) Wini Warren, Black Women Scientists in the United States , Indiana University Press, 1999, pp. 10-1 148-150, ISBN 025 URL consulted on 26 August 2017 .
  3. ^ a b c d It is f ( IN ) Jeannette Brown, African American Women Chemists , Oxford University Press, USA, 5 gennaio 2012, pp. 10-1 27-29, ISBN 9780199742822. URL consulted on 26 August 2017 .
  4. ^ ( IN ) Angie Turner King, An Analysis of Early Algebra Textbooks Used in the American Secondary Schools Before 1900 , University of Pittsburgh, 1955. URL consulted on 26 August 2017 .
  5. ^ Soldier-Scholars at WV State College . are wvculture.org . URL consulted on 26 August 2017 (archived by URL Original 1 March 2020) .
  6. ^ ( IN ) Wini Warren, Black Women Scientists in the United States , Indiana University Press, 1999, p. 141, ISBN 02533 URL consulted on 26 August 2017 .
  7. ^ ( IN ) Sibrina Collins, King, Angie Lena Turner (1905–2004) . are Blackpast.org . URL consulted on 26 August 2017 .

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