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Marion Elizabeth Stark

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Marion Elizabeth Stark
M. Stark (upper), R. Politzer (lower left), F. Harshbarger, ICM 1932
Born(1894-08-23)August 23, 1894
Norwich, Connecticut
DiedApril 15, 1982(1982-04-15) (aged 87)
Waterford, New Jersey
Resting place
Norwich, Connecticut
Alma mater
Scientific career
InstitutionsWellesley College
Thesis A Self-Adjoint Boundary value Problem Associated with a Problem of the Calculus of Variations  (1926)
Leonard Eugene Dickson, Gilbert Ames Bliss

Marion Elizabeth Stark (23 Aug 1894[1] – 15 April 1982)[2] was an American mathematician. She was one of the first women to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics.[3]

Education and career

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She got her A.B. in 1916, and her A.M. in 1917, both from Brown University.[4] In 1917, she became the professor of mathematics Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. In autumn 1919, she started teaching in Wellesley College as a part-time instructor, while attending courses of Helen Abbot Merrill and Mabel M. Young.[5][6] In the 1923 summer quarter, and, supported by a fellowship, in autumn 1924 through summer 1925, she studied at the University of Chicago[4] where she received her Ph.D. in 1926.[3][7][8]

In 1927, she was appointed assistant professor of mathematics at Wellesley,[9][10] in 1936, she was promoted to an associate professor there.[11] In 1945, she was promoted to a professorship;[12] in 1946, she became Chairman of the Department.[13] In 1960, she retired from Wellesley after 40 years, her last rank being a Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Mathematics.[3][14]

Recognition

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Stark was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1938.[15]

References

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  1. ↑ Biographic data at WorldCat OCLC 5894492657
  2. ↑ Holton, Felicia Antonelli, ed. (Sep 1982). "Deaths". University of Chicago Magazine. Campus Publications. The University of Chicago Library. p. 45.
  3. 1 2 3 Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2008). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics — The Pre-1940 PhD's. History of Mathematics. Vol. 34 (1st ed.). American Mathematical Society, The London Mathematical Society. ISBN 978-0-8218-4376-5. Biography on pp. 575–577 of the Supplementary Material at AMS
  4. 1 2 "University Record (New Series)". Campus Publications. The University of Chicago Library. Jul 1924.
  5. ↑ "The Wellesley News (09-25-1919)". Wellesley College. Sep 1919. Archived from the original on 2017-11-09. Retrieved 2017-11-08. p. 6; with typos in middle initial and academic degree
  6. ↑ "The Wellesley Legenda 1920". Wellesley College. 1920. Archived from the original on 2017-11-09. Retrieved 2017-11-08. p. 26
  7. ↑ Marion Elizabeth Stark (1926). A Self-Adjoint Boundary value Problem Associated with a Problem of the Calculus of Variations (Ph.D. thesis). University of Chicago. OCLC 213821.
  8. ↑ Marion Elizabeth Stark at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  9. ↑ "Notes". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 33 (6): 798. Nov–Dec 1927.
  10. ↑ Legenda 1928. Wellesley College. 1928.. p. 23
  11. ↑ "University of Chicago Magazine". Campus Publications. The University of Chicago Library. Nov 1936.
  12. ↑ "Notes". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 51 (7): 515. Jul 1945.
  13. ↑ "University of Chicago Magazine". Campus Publications. The University of Chicago Library. Dec 1946.
  14. ↑ "Report of the President 1958–1960". Wellesley College. Archived from the original on 2017-11-09. Retrieved 2017-11-08. p. 20
  15. ↑ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2021-04-20.
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