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Marion Elizabeth Stark
Birth Date:23 August 1894
Birth Place:Norwich, Connecticut
Death Place:Waterford, New Jersey
Resting Place:Norwich, Connecticut
Workplaces:Wellesley College
Thesis Title:A Self-Adjoint Boundary value Problem Associated with a Problem of the Calculus of Variations
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Thesis Year:1926
Doctoral Advisors:Leonard Eugene Dickson, Gilbert Ames Bliss
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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

She got her A.B. in 1916, and her A.M. in 1917, both from Brown University. 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.[4] [5] In the 1923 summer quarter, and, supported by a fellowship, in autumn 1924 through summer 1925, she studied at the University of Chicago[6] where she received her Ph.D. in 1926.[3] [7]

In 1927, she was appointed assistant professor of mathematics at Wellesley,[8] [9] in 1936, she was promoted to an associate professor there.[10] In 1945, she was promoted to a professorship;[11] in 1946, she became Chairman of the Department.[12] In 1960, she retired from Wellesley after 40 years, her last rank being a Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Mathematics.[3] [13]

Recognition

Stark was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1938.[14]

Notes and References

  1. Biographic data at WorldCat
  2. Web site: The University of Chicago Library . Campus Publications . University of Chicago Magazine . 75 . 1 . Sep 1982 .
  3. Book: Pioneering Women in American Mathematics . 978-0-8218-4376-5 . Judy . Green . Judy Green (mathematician) . Jeanne . LaDuke . Jeanne LaDuke . Pioneering Women in American Mathematics - The Pre-1940 PhD's . . History of Mathematics . 34 . 1st . 2008 . Biography on pp. 575–577 of the Supplementary Material at AMS
  4. Web site: The Wellesley News (09-25-1919) . Wellesley College . Sep 1919 . 2017-11-08 . 2017-11-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171109080933/https://repository.wellesley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1603&context=news . dead . p. 6; with typos in middle initial and academic degree
  5. Web site: The Wellesley Legenda 1920 . Wellesley College . 1920 . 2017-11-08 . 2017-11-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171109023618/https://repository.wellesley.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1030&context=legenda . dead . p. 26
  6. Web site: The University of Chicago Library . Campus Publications . University Record (New Series) . 10 . 3 . Jul 1924 .
  7. Ph.D. thesis . Marion Elizabeth Stark . A Self-Adjoint Boundary value Problem Associated with a Problem of the Calculus of Variations . University of Chicago . 1926 . 213821 .
  8. Notes . Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . 33 . 6 . Nov–Dec 1927 . 798 .
  9. Book: Legenda 1928 . 1928 . Wellesley College . . p. 23
  10. Web site: The University of Chicago Library . Campus Publications . University of Chicago Magazine . 29 . 1 . Nov 1936 .
  11. Notes . Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society . 51 . 7 . Jul 1945 . 515 .
  12. Web site: The University of Chicago Library . Campus Publications . University of Chicago Magazine . 39 . 3 . Dec 1946 .
  13. Web site: Report of the President 1958–1960 . Wellesley College . 2017-11-08 . 2017-11-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171109023445/https://repository.wellesley.edu/do/search/?q=marion%20stark%20retire&start=0&context=1912413&facet=publication_year:1961 . dead . p. 20
  14. Web site: Historic Fellows. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2021-04-20.

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