Anne C. Morel

Anne C. Morel (also published as Anne C. Davis, died July 22, 1984) was an American mathematician known for her work in logic, order theory, and algebra. She was the first female full professor of mathematics at the University of Washington. Education and career Morel graduated in 1941 from the University of California, Los Angeles. She began graduate study in mathematics in 1942 at the University of California, Berkeley, but left her studies to serve in the WAVES (the United States Naval Women's Reserve) during World War II. She returned to her studies in Berkeley in 1946, and completed her Ph.D. in 1953. Her dissertation, A Study in the Arithmetic of Order Types, was supervised by Alfred Tarski, and concerned ordinal arithmetic. After two years as an assistant professor at Berkeley, and positions at the University of California, Davis and the Institute for Advanced Study (1959–1960), she joined the mathematics faculty at the University of Washington in 1960, and became a tenured associate professor there in 1961. Eventually she became the first female full professor of mathematics there, and for many years she was the university's only female professor of mathematics. Research contributions As part of her thesis work, in 1952, Morel found two different countable order types whose squares are equal. After Wacław Sierpiński simplified her construction, they published it jointly.