Michael Darwin Morley | |
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.jpg) Morley in Berkeley in 1973 | |
| Born | September 29, 1930 |
| Died | October 11, 2020 (aged 90) |
| Nationality | American |
| Awards | Leroy P. Steele Prize (2003) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Cornell University |
| Thesis | Categoricity in Power (1962) |
| Doctoral advisor | Saunders Mac Lane, Robert Vaught |
Michael Darwin Morley (September 29, 1930 – October 11, 2020) was an American mathematician. At his death in 2020, Morley was professor emeritus at Cornell University. His research was in mathematical logic and model theory, and he is best known for Morley's categoricity theorem, which he proved in his PhD thesis Categoricity in Power in 1962.