In 1933, during his stay at the Department of Mathematics of theUniversity of California, Berkeley as an instructor, he met Frances Eleonor Moss, who had just started studying for herM.A.:[8] they married in 1937[7] and had three children.[9] With summers off the family enjoyed traveling: they crossed theUnited States by car at least 20 times, visiting many natural wonders, and looked forward to theAMS meetings, held each year in August. They usually spent abroad theirsabbatical leaves, and doing so they visited nearly every European country, witnessing many changes succeeding during the period from the 1950s to the 1980s.[8]
Kelley, Lehmer & Robinson (1989, p. 107) describe him as really very gifted for friendship, having a charmingsense of humor[17] and being continuously attentive for people, mathematics and musics. His human qualities are described as the complement to his ability in administrative duties and in scientific research:[18] as a confirmation of his skills in scientific research, alsoMaull (1995a, p. 10) states that he was one of the strongest workers inanalysis.
In 1985 his widow, Frances Eleonor Morrey, née Ross, established theCharles B. Morrey Jr. Assistant Professorship at the Berkeley Mathematics department, to honor his memory.[19]
Con l'opera di Morrey il metodo diretto del Calcolo delle Variazioni riprendeva il suo cammino ed i problemi esistenziali rimasti aperti trovavano soluzione.[20]
Charles B. Morrey Jr. was a very effective teacher.[13] His book (Morrey 1962) was the forerunner of a sequence of texts on calculus and analytic geometry, written in collaboration withMurray H. Protter. According toKelley, Lehmer & Robinson (1989, p. 106) and toMaull (1995a, p. 10), these books have had a wide influence on both university and high school teaching of mathematics. Morrey was also a successful advanced level teacher and thesis supervisor: at least 17 Ph.D. dissertations were written under his supervision.[13]
Morrey, Charles B. Jr. (1943), "Multiple integral problems in the calculus of variations and related topics",University of California Publications in Mathematics, (New Series),1:1–130,MR0011537,Zbl0063.04107.
Morrey, Charles B. Jr. (1962),University Calculus with Analytic Geometry, Reading, Massachusetts:Addison–Wesley, p. 754, reviewed byHoffman, Stephen (May 1963), "University Calculus with Analytic Geometry. by C. B. Morrey Jr.",The American Mathematical Monthly,70 (5):590–592,doi:10.2307/2312108,JSTOR2312108.
^SeeKelley, Lehmer & Robinson (1989, p. 107). AlsoMaull (1995a, p. 10) alludes to their children, however without giving any detail except the birth year of their first born, i.e. 1941.
^According to Sarah Hallam (see her interview byMaull (1995c, p. 11)) and toRider (1985, pp. 288–289). In this last reference, the author also describes briefly but comprehensively the events leading to his hiring.
^An English translation reads as:"With the work of Morrey the direct method in the Calculus of Variation found its path and the open existence problems found their solution".
Cesari, Lamberto (1986), "L'opera di Leonida Tonelli e la sua influenza nel pensiero scientifico del secolo", in Montalenti, G.;Amerio, L.; Acquaro, G.; Baiada, E.; et al. (eds.),Convegno celebrativo del centenario della nascita di Mauro Picone e Leonida Tonelli (6–9 maggio 1985), Atti dei Convegni Lincei (in Italian), vol. 77, Roma:Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, pp. 41–73, archived fromthe original on February 23, 2011, retrievedJune 27, 2015. "The work of Leonida Tonelli and his influence on scientific thinking in this century" (English translation of the title) is an ample commemorative article, reporting recollections of the Author about teachers and colleagues, and a detailed survey of his and theirs scientific work, presented at theInternational congress in occasion of the celebration of the centenary of birth of Mauro Picone and Leonida Tonelli (held inRome on May 6–9, 1985).
Fichera, Gaetano (1995), "Tre battaglie perdute da tre grandi matematici italiani",Atti del convegno di studi in memoria di Giuseppe Gemignani. Modena, 20 maggio 1994, Collana di Studi dell'Accademia (in Italian), vol. 11,Modena:Enrico Mucchi Editore on behalf of theAccademia Nazionale di Scienze, Lettere e Arti di Modena, pp. 9–28,MR1385469. This paper, included in the Proceedings of the Study Meeting in Memory of Giuseppe Gemignani, is an account of the failures ofVito Volterra,Leonida Tonelli andFrancesco Severi, when dealing with particular research problems during their career. An English translation of the title reads as:-"Three battles lost by three great Italian mathematicians".
