J. Ernest Wilkens Jr. – African American Scientist
Jesse Ernest Wilkins, Jr. is often described as one of America’s most important contemporary mathematicians. When he finished his Ph.D. at 19, he was hailed by the national press as a “negro genius.” Wilkins (1923-2011) was a prominent African American mathematician and physicist who worked at the University of Chicago Met Lab during the Manhattan … [Read more…]