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Clara Bacon obtained her PhD in mathematics in 1911 from Johns Hopkins University. The topic was The Cartesian Oval and the Elliptic Functions Rho and Sigma and her thesis advisor was Frank Morley. She was the first woman to get a PhD in mathematics from Johns Hopkins. She went on to teach math and was active in MAA. She published several papers as well.

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