Raymond L. Johnson
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Born | Alice, Texas, US | 25 June 1943
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Notable students | Kimberly Sellers |
Raymond Lewis Johnson (born 1943) is an American mathematician, currently a professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park[1] and an adjunct professor of mathematics at Rice University.[2] He was the first African-American student at Rice University, and the first African-American mathematics professor at the University of Maryland.[3] His research concerns non-well-posed problems and harmonic analysis.[4]
Early life and education
Johnson was born on 25 June 1943 in
Johnson earned a
On completing his undergraduate studies, Curtis suggested that Johnson continue as a graduate student at Rice University. Rice's founding charter was to serve only the white citizens of Texas, but the university had determined to break both its racial and its state-based restrictions.
Academic career
With the help of Douglas, Johnson obtained a position at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he became the first African-American mathematics professor.[4][3] At Maryland, Johnson remained active in recruiting and retaining African-American students,[10][5] especially from historically black colleges and universities.[11] He served as a mentor to 23 doctoral students, most of them African-American and many of them female; an administrator at Maryland wrote of his work in this area that "the institutional success of our Department in educating underrepresented minorities has been based on the leadership of Ray Johnson".[10][1] He remained at Maryland for 40 years[11][3] (with a two-year interlude at Howard University from 1976 to 1978)[4] until returning to Rice in 2007.[11][3]
Awards and honors
In 1986, the University of Maryland gave Johnson their Distinguished Minority Faculty Award.[11] Johnson was the recipient of the 2006 Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[10] In 2015 he won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, given to 14 scholars nationally by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.[11][1][3] Johnson's work earned him recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.[12]
Johnson was named a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, in the 2022 class of fellows, "for contributions to classical harmonic analysis, and for efforts toward increasing the participation of African Americans in mathematics".[13]
References
- ^ a b c Raymond L. Johnson Receives 2015 Presidential Mentorship Award (PAESMEM), University of Maryland Department of Mathematics, 2015, retrieved 2017-04-06.
- ^ Faculty listing, Rice University Mathematics, retrieved 2017-04-06.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Minority Professors, Staff, and Graduate Students", Rice University between decisions: from co-education to integration (1957–1970), Woodson Research Center - Fondren Library - Rice University, 2016, retrieved 2017-04-06.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Johnson, Raymond L., You can get there even from Alice, Texas(if you're lucky and you know where there is), Rice University, retrieved 2017-04-06.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Ambruso, Kathleen, "Raymond Lewis Johnson", Strengthening Underrepresented Minority Mathematics Achievement (SUMMA), Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2017-04-06.
- ^ "Negro Students On Honor List Okayed By Rice", Monroe News-Star, July 16, 1965.
- ^ Guide to the Rice Institute/Rice University Charter Trial records, 1963 – 1998, University of Texas Library, retrieved 2017-04-06.
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- ^ Raymond L. Johnson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c 2006 Mentor Award for Lifetime Achievement, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2006, retrieved 2017-04-06.
- ^ a b c d e "Raymond L. Johnson - Professor Emeritus of Mathematics", Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, retrieved 2017-04-06.
- ^ "Black History Month 2017 Honoree: Raymond Johnson", Mathematically Gifted & Black, The Network of Minorities in Mathematical Sciences, 2017, retrieved 2021-11-07
- ^ 2022 Class of Fellows of the AMS, American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2021-11-05