Elbert Frank Cox
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American mathematician
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- PhD Mathematics Cornell University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Elbert Frank Cox was an American mathematician. He was the first Black person in history to receive a PhD in mathematics, which he earned at Cornell University in 1925. Early life Cox was born in Evansville, Indiana to Johnson D. Cox, a Kentucky-born teacher active in the church, and Eugenia Talbot Cox. He grew up with his parents, maternal grandmother and two brothers in a racially mixed neighborhood; in 1900, in his block, there were three Black and five white families.
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