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Marshall Harvey Stone
(1903-1989) was the son of Harlan
Fiske Stone. He attended Harvard University (B.S. 1923; Ph.D. 1926)
and had a distinguished career as an internationally known research
mathematician. He was a member of the Harvard faculty from 1927 to
1946, when he was appointed chair of the department of Mathematics
at the University of Chicago. In 1968 he returned to Amherst with an
appointment as professor of Mathematics at the University of
Massachusetts. He received a Fulbright Fellowship in 1967, the
National Medal of Science in 1983, the Chancellor's Medal of the
University of Massachusetts in 1974, and other awards. . |
