Michael D. Morley Receives 2003 AMS Steele Prize

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January 16, 2003

PROVIDENCE, RI---Michael D. Morley of Cornell University is receiving the 2003 AMS Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research. Presented annually by the American Mathematical Society, the Steele Prize is one of the highest distinctions in mathematics. The prize will be awarded today at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland.

Professor Morley is being honored for his paper "Categoricity in Power" (Transactions of the AMS 114 (1965) 514-538), which set in motion an extensive development of pure model theory by proving the first deep theorem in this subject and introducing in the process completely new tools to analyze theories and their models.

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