Ernest Wilkins Major Accomplishments
J.Ernest Wilkins Jr. was born November 27, 1923, in Chicago, IL to the late J. Ernest Wilkins Sr. His father was a lawyer who went on to become President of the Cook County Bar Association in the early 1940s (Cook County is in northeastern Illinois and Chicago is in that County), and Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Eisenhower administration of the 1950s. His mother Lucile Robinson had been educated to the level of a Master's Degree and was trained as a schoolteacher. He entered the University of Chicago at the age of only 13 there becoming the youngest student ever to enter that college to study mathematics. He received great publicity when he graduated with his A.B in Mathematics from UCHI in 1940 at only 17. He continued to study Math
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Around this time, he married Gloria Stewart in 1947. Together they had two children, Sharon and J. Ernest the third. During 1950 he then worked as a mathematician the United Nuclear Corporation of America in White Plains, NY for ten years. Furthering his career, Wilkins earned degrees when he was awarded a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from NYU in 1957 and a Master of Mechanical Engineering n 1960.After receiving these awards, Wilkins held several academic and non-academic appointments. He worked at the General Atomic Company in San Diego in the 1960s and in the 1970s he was appointed to Howard University as a Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematical Physics. He established a Ph.D. program in mathematical at HU and by doing so Howard became the first black traditional university to have such a program. Between 1977 and 1984 Wilkins worked at EG&G Idaho, becoming Vice President and Deputy General Manager for Science and Engineering. Then from 1984, he spent his last year as a Fellow at the Argonne National Laboratory of the U.S Department Energy in Argonne, Illinois before retiring. He remained a consultant at the Argonne National Laboratory prior to retirement. He again became a Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at Clark Atlanta University in
Around this time, he married Gloria Stewart in 1947. Together they had two children, Sharon and J. Ernest the third. During 1950 he then worked as a mathematician the United Nuclear Corporation of America in White Plains, NY for ten years. Furthering his career, Wilkins earned degrees when he was awarded a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from NYU in 1957 and a Master of Mechanical Engineering n 1960.After receiving these awards, Wilkins held several academic and non-academic appointments. He worked at the General Atomic Company in San Diego in the 1960s and in the 1970s he was appointed to Howard University as a Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematical Physics. He established a Ph.D. program in mathematical at HU and by doing so Howard became the first black traditional university to have such a program. Between 1977 and 1984 Wilkins worked at EG&G Idaho, becoming Vice President and Deputy General Manager for Science and Engineering. Then from 1984, he spent his last year as a Fellow at the Argonne National Laboratory of the U.S Department Energy in Argonne, Illinois before retiring. He remained a consultant at the Argonne National Laboratory prior to retirement. He again became a Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Physics at Clark Atlanta University in