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J. ERNEST WILKINS JR.
J. ERNEST WILKINS JR.
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Ernest and Lucile Beatrice Robinson Wilkins. His father was a prominent attorney and assistant secretary of the Department of Labor during the Eisenhower administration; his mother held a master's degree and taught in the Chicago Public School system.
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He made major contributions to the Manhattan Project2 and nuclear engineering, including the formulation of mathematical models to explain gamma r adiation, which was critical to the development of shielding against gamma radiation emitted by nuclear sources and the sun and thus key to the design of safe nuclear reactors and space probes. After World War II Wilkins worked as a mathematician for the American Optical Company (1946–50)
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He then took a job as assistant chair of theoretical physics at General Atomic Company in San Diego; during his decade there he was promoted to assistant director of defense science and engineering and then director of com putational research. In 1970 he was hired as Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematical Physics at Howard University, where he estab lished the university's PhD program in mathematics.
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For the National Research Council, he was appointed to the Ford Foundation Diversity Fellowships Predoctoral Review Panel on Engineering (1999, 2000, 2001) , Committee for a Decadal Study of the Mathematical Sciences (1999–2000)
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