Josephine Margaret Mitchell was a Canadian-American mathematician specializing in the mathematical analysis of functions of several complex variables. She was the victim of a notorious case of discrimination against women in academia when, after she married another more junior faculty member at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, the university used its anti-nepotism rules to revoke her tenured position while allowing her husband to keep his untenured one.
- Occupation
- mathematician, university teacher
- Born
- June 30, 1912
- Died
- December 28, 2000