Editing Julia Robinson (section)

== Early years ==
Robinson was born in [[St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], the daughter of Ralph Bowers Bowman and Helen (Hall) Bowman.<ref name="NAS Memoir" />{{Rp|4}} Her father owned a machine equipment company while her mother was a school teacher before marriage.<ref name="NAS Memoir" />{{Rp|4}} Her mother died when Robinson was 2 years old and her father remarried.<ref name="NAS Memoir" />{{Rp|4}} Her older sister was the mathematical popularizer and biographer [[Constance Reid]] and her younger sister is Billie Comstock.<ref name="NAS Memoir" />{{Rp|22}}

When she was 9 years old, she was diagnosed with scarlet fever, which was shortly followed by rheumatic fever.<ref name="Autobiography">{{cite book|url=https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/images/upload_library/22/Polya/07468342.di020720.02p00912.pdf|title=The Autobiography of Julia Robinson|last1=Reid|first1=Constance|date=1986|publisher=The College Mathematics Journal|pages=3–21|access-date=22 November 2018|archive-date=7 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181207045746/https://www.maa.org/sites/default/files/images/upload_library/22/Polya/07468342.di020720.02p00912.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{Rp|4}} This caused her to miss two years of school. When she was well again, she was privately tutored by a retired primary school teacher. In just one year, she was able to complete fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth year curriculum.<ref name="NAS Memoir" />{{Rp|4}} While in junior high school, she was given an IQ test in which she scored a 98, a couple points below average, which she explains away as being "unaccustomed to taking tests."<ref name="Autobiography" /> Nevertheless, Julia stood out in [[San Diego High School]] as the only female student taking advanced classes in mathematics and physics.<ref name="NAS Memoir" />{{Rp|4}} She graduated high school with a Bausch-Lomb award for being overall outstanding in science.<ref name=":0" />

In 1936, Robinson entered [[San Diego State University]] at the age of 16.<ref name="NAS Memoir" />{{Rp|4}} Dissatisfied with the mathematics curriculum at San Diego State University, she transferred to [[University of California, Berkeley]] in 1939 for her senior year. Before she was able to transfer to UC Berkeley, her father committed suicide in 1937 due to financial insecurities.<ref name="NAS Memoir" />{{Rp|5}} She took five mathematics courses in her first year at Berkeley,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.nap.edu/read/4560/chapter/21#455|doi = 10.17226/4560|title = Biographical Memoirs|year = 1994|isbn = 978-0-309-04976-4}}</ref> one being a [[number theory]] course taught by [[Raphael M. Robinson]]. She received her [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] degree in 1940,<ref name="NAS Memoir" />{{Rp|5}} and later married Raphael in 1941.<ref name="NAS Memoir" />{{Rp|5}}