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Gloria Conyers Hewitt

1935–

United States

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Gloria Conyers Hewitt (born October 26, 1935) is an American mathematician. She was the fourth African-American woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her main research interests were in group theory and abstract algebra.

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