# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-d-morley
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:49:47.543Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-d-morley"
name: "Michael D. Morley"
slug: "michael-d-morley"
description: "Michael Darwin Morley 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."
tagline: "American mathematician (1930–2020)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-09-29"
deathDate: "2020-10-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "مایکل مورلی"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump