Marion Elizabeth Stark

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

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 placeNorwich, Connecticut
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Scientific career
InstitutionsWellesley College
ThesisA Self-Adjoint Boundary value Problem Associated with a Problem of the Calculus of Variations (1926)
Doctoral advisorsLeonard Eugene Dickson, Gilbert Ames Bliss

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]

References
  1. Biographic data at WorldCat OCLC 5894492657
  2. "University of Chicago Magazine". Campus Publications. 75 (1). The University of Chicago Library. Sep 1982. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. Green, Judy; LaDuke, Jeanne (2008). Pioneering Women in American Mathematics — The Pre-1940 PhD's. History of Mathematics. 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. "University Record (New Series)". Campus Publications. 10 (3). The University of Chicago Library. Jul 1924. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  5. "The Wellesley News (09-25-1919)". Wellesley College. Sep 1919. Cite journal requires |journal= (help) p. 6; with typos in middle initial and academic degree
  6. "The Wellesley Legenda 1920". Wellesley College. 1920. Cite journal requires |journal= (help) 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.. p. 23
  11. "University of Chicago Magazine". Campus Publications. 29 (1). The University of Chicago Library. Nov 1936. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  12. "Notes". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 51 (7): 515. Jul 1945.
  13. "University of Chicago Magazine". Campus Publications. 39 (3). The University of Chicago Library. Dec 1946. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  14. "Report of the President 1958–1960". Wellesley College. Cite journal requires |journal= (help) p. 20
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