Claribel Kendall

Claribel Kendall (January 23, 1889 – April 17, 1965) was an American mathematician.

Education

Born in

While completing her master's degree, Kendall began teaching in the mathematics department at the University of Colorado in 1913. After receiving her master's degree, she began to work towards her doctorate. Kendall entered the University of Chicago as a student and spent several summers between 1915 and 1918 there*. In 1920 she received a fellowship from the University of Chicago to aid in the completion of her degree. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in January 1922.^[3] Kendall wrote her doctoral thesis on “Certain Congruences Determined by a Given Surface”, under Professor Ernest Julius Wilczynski. Kendall's work went on to be published in the American Journal of Mathematics in 1923.

Career

Kendall taught at the

Awards

Kendall was the first member of the department to receive the Robert L. Stearns Award^[4] from the University of Colorado, Boulder for “outstanding service or achievement”. She was also a charter member of the Mathematical Association of America^[5] and one of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA in 1917.

References

• Louise S. Grinstein (Editor), Paul J. Campbell (Editor) (1987). Women of Mathematics: A Bio-Bibliographic Sourcebook.
  ISBN 978-0-313-24849-8
  . pp. 92–94.