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{{DYK talk|10 May|2021|entry=... that when mathematician '''[[Josephine M. Mitchell]]''' married another [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign|University of Illinois]] faculty member, the university revoked her [[Academic tenure|tenured]] position so her husband could keep his untenured one?|nompage=Template:Did you know nominations/Josephine M. Mitchell}}
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==Library donation==
The sentence "''When a flood destroyed the mathematics library of Charles University in Prague, she and her husband donated their own extensive library to replace it.''" may be incorrect, as the flooding referred to is presumably the more severe [[2002 European floods#Czech Republic]] of August 2002, rather than the [[1997 Central European flood]]. As Mitchell died on December 28, 2000, and her husband on February 6, 2002, the donation may have been made on their behalf posthumously, rather than directly by Mitchell and her husband. The actual text of the ref cited (from 2003) is ambiguous: "''In one special way, they have already provided unusual support for mathematics: Their rather magnificent collection of books and journals was sent to Charles University in the Czech Republic, where '''recent''' floods had destroyed the entire library.''" (my emphasis) [[User:Bahudhara|Bahudhara]] ([[User talk:Bahudhara|talk]]) 06:25, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
:Exactly the same thought (and conclusion) occurred to me, on checking the source. My interpretation, and it is no more than that, is that the American Mathematical Society made the decision to transfer property donated to it. But in any case, the words appearing in the article are not adequately supported by the source. We might well suppose that they would have thought it an appropriate use of their library, although "replace" is likely to also be too strong an assertion. --[[User:PaulBetteridge|PaulBetteridge]] ([[User talk:PaulBetteridge|talk]]) 09:05, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
::[[WP:BOLD|Please go ahead]] and correct that part to a more accurate description of what happened. —[[User:David Eppstein|David Eppstein]] ([[User talk:David Eppstein|talk]]) 16:10, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
:::An appropriate change was made by another editor --[[User:PaulBetteridge|PaulBetteridge]] ([[User talk:PaulBetteridge|talk]]) 22:03, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
== Doctoral advisor ==
The article currently lists Mitchell’s Ph.D advisor as [[Hilda Geiringer]], [https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=6988 citing] the Mathematics Genealogy Project. Several other sources, though, give her advisor as [[Anna Pell Wheeler]] (sources: [https://www.ias.edu/sites/default/files/pdfs/publications/attributions-2004-1.pdf Institute for Advanced Study]; [https://www.ams.org/giving/Mitchell-Schoenfeld-dedication.pdf AMS]). Anybody have a way to verify? —[[User:Delirium|Delirium]] ([[User talk:Delirium|talk]]) 19:10, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
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