Marion Elizabeth Stark
Marion Elizabeth Stark was an American mathematician.
She was one of the first women who got a Ph.D. in mathematics.
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.
In the 1923 summer quarter, and, supported by a fellowship, in autumn 1924 through summer 1925, she studied at the University of Chicago
where she received her Ph.D. in 1926.
In 1927, she was appointed assistant professor of mathematics at Wellesley,
in 1936, she was promoted to an associate professor there.
In 1945, she was promoted to a professorship;
in 1946, she became Chairman of the Department.
In 1960, she retired from Wellesley after 40 years, her last rank being a Lewis Atterbury Stimson Professor of Mathematics.
