Atwell Rufus Turquette

Background

Turquette, Atwell Rufus was born on July 14, 1914 in Texarkana, Texas, United States. Son of Rufus Watson and Dale Cook (Warmack) Turquette.

Education

Bachelor, University Arkansas, 1936. Master of Arts, Duke University, 1937. Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1943.

Career

Assistant professor Florida Southern College, Lakeland, 1937-1938. Fellow University Chicago, 1938-1939. Associate professor Florida Southern College, Lakeland, 1939-1940.

Assistantship, fellow Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1940-1943, instructor, 1943-1945. Assistant professor University Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 1945-1948, associate professor, 1948-1952, professor, 1952-1975, professor emeritus, since 1975. Visiting professor Rockefeller General Education Board.

Achievements

• Atwell Rufus Turquette has been listed as a noteworthy logician by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Mathematics Society, Society Industrial and Appl. Mathematics Symbolic Logic Association, London Mathematics Society, Calcutta Mathematics Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Sciences, Am Phil. Association.

Connections

Married Lucille Case Le Roy, June 2, 1937 (deceased February 1956). Married Maxine Harriot Kennedy, April 2, 1958 (deceased August 1992). Married Frances D. Bond, December 27, 1998 (deceased November 2007).

Father:

Rufus Watson Turquette

Mother:

Dale Cook (Warmack) Turquette

Spouse:

Lucille Case Le Roy

Spouse:

Frances D. Bond

Spouse:

Maxine Harriot Kennedy