About Mary McCammon
Lived 1928 – 2008 (aged 79–80). Mary McCammon was a British university teacher.
Career and research She joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology for postdoctoral research. She served as director for undergraduate studies twice, first between 1963 and 1975, and again from 1988 to 1998.
Awards and honours 1982 Christian Mary Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching 1984 Teresa Cohen Service Award 1991 Eberly College of Science Distinguished Service Award 1998 C.I. Knoll Award for Excellence in Teaching
In 2000, Pennsylvania State University announced the Mary Lister McCammon Award, a scholarship for undergraduate studies, as well as the McCammon Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching named in her honour. In 2019, Imperial College London announced the Mary Lister McCammon Summer Research Fellowship for undergraduate women mathematicians.
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British mathematician
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Mary McCammon was born in 1928.
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Mary McCammon died on 11 April 2008.
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