Marshall H. Stone

Marshall Harvey Stone was an American mathematician, born in 1903, who contributed to real analysis, functional analysis, topology and the study of Boolean algebras. He was the son of Harlan Fiske Stone, Chief Justice of the United States, and became drawn to mathematics as an undergraduate at Harvard, where he completed a PhD in 1926 with a thesis on differential equations supervised by George David Birkhoff. He taught at Harvard, Yale and Columbia, became a full professor at Harvard in 1937, did classified research for the War Department in World War II, and chaired the mathematics department at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1952, hiring several notable mathematicians. He later taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst until 1980.