Mathematician:Mary Ellen Rudin

American topologist best known for creating counterexamples to conjectures in point-set topology, and especially for being the first person to construct a Dowker Space, disproving a long-standing conjecture.

Born Mary Ellen Estill, under which name she published several papers before her marriage.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 7 Dec 1924 in Hillsboro, Texas, USA
 * 1941: Entered University of Texas
 * 1944: Graduated with B.A.
 * 1949: Received Ph.D., began teaching at Duke University
 * 1953: Married Walter Rudin
 * 1953 - 1958: Part time Associate Professorship at University of Rochester
 * 1959 - 1971: Temporary part time Lecturer in Mathematics at University of Wisconsin (Madison)
 * 1963: Awarded prize of Nieuwe Archief voor Wiskunk by the Mathematical Society of the Netherlands
 * 1971: Promoted to full professor
 * Died: 18 Mar 2013

Books, Publications, etc.

 * 1950: Concerning Abstract Spaces
 * 1951: Separation in Non-Separable Spaces
 * 1952: A Primitive Dispersion Set of the Plane
 * 1952: Concerning a Problem of Souslin's
 * 1955: Countable Paracompactness and Souslin's Problem
 * 1971: A Normal Space $X$ for which $X \times I$ is not Normal