Martha Helen Barton

Martha Helen Barton (1891–1971), also known as Helen Barton, was an American physicist and mathematician. She was one of the few women to earn a doctorate in the United States in mathematics before World War II.

Biography Martha Helen Barton was born August 9, 1891, in Baltimore, Maryland, the daughter of Mary Irene Eichelberger and James Sheridan Barton. She attended Western High School graduating with honors and then completed her bachelor's degree from nearby Goucher College in 1913, a member of Phi Beta Kappa. By then she was known as Helen Barton. Her research was titled: A Modern Presentation of Grassman's Tensor Analysis Mathematics Subject Classification: 01—History and biography. In 1960 the Barton faculty area in the McIver classroom building at UNC-Greensboro was named in her honor.