Editing Alonzo Church (section)

==Life==
Alonzo Church was born on June 14, 1903, in [[Washington, D.C.]], where his father, Samuel Robbins Church, was a [[justice of the peace]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Bundy |first=Charles S. |date=1902 |title=A History of the Office of Justice of the Peace in the District of Columbia |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40066805 |journal=Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. |volume=5 |pages=259–293 |jstor=40066805 |issn=0897-9049}}</ref> and the judge of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia. He was the grandson of Alonzo Webster Church (1829–1909), [[United States Senate Librarian]] from 1881 to 1901, and great-grandson of [[Alonzo Church (college president)|Alonzo Church]], a professor of Mathematics and Astronomy and 6th President of the University of Georgia.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Coulter |first=E. Merton |title=College Life in the Old South |publisher=University of Georgia Press |year=1928 |isbn= 9-780-8203-3199-7}}</ref> As a young boy, Church was partially blinded by an air gun accident.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://builds.openlogicproject.org/content/history/biographies/alonzo-church.pdf |title=Alonzo Church |date=2022-12-19 |website=Open Logic}}</ref> The family later moved to Virginia after his father lost his position at the university because of failing eyesight. With help from his uncle, also named Alonzo Church, the son attended the private Ridgefield School for Boys in [[Ridgefield, Connecticut]].<ref>The Ridgefield School for Boys, also known as the Ridgefield School, was a private school that existed from 1907 to 1938. See [http://jackfsanders.tripod.com/rschool2.htm The Ridgefield School].</ref> After graduating from Ridgefield in 1920, Church attended Princeton University, where he was an exceptional student. He published his first paper on [[Lorentz transformation]]s<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=2298823 | last1=Church | first1=Alonzo | title=Uniqueness of the Lorentz Transformation | journal=The American Mathematical Monthly | year=1924 | volume=31 | issue=8 | pages=376–382 | doi=10.1080/00029890.1924.11986368 }}</ref> in 1924 and graduated the same year with a degree in mathematics. He stayed at Princeton for graduate work, earning a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in mathematics in three years under [[Oswald Veblen]].

He married Mary Julia Kuczinski in 1925. The couple had three children: Alonzo Jr. (1929), Mary Ann (1933), and Mildred (1938).

After receiving his Ph.D., he taught briefly as an instructor at the [[University of Chicago]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://paw.princeton.edu/article/early-history-computing-princeton|title=An early history of computing at Princeton|date=2012-04-04|website=Princeton Alumni Weekly|language=en|access-date=2020-04-19}}</ref> He received a two-year [[United States National Research Council|National Research Fellowship]] that enabled him to attend [[Harvard University]] in 1927–1928, and the [[University of Göttingen]] and [[University of Amsterdam]] the following year.

He taught philosophy and mathematics at [[Princeton University|Princeton]] for nearly four decades, from 1929 to 1967. He held the Flint Professorship of Philosophy and Mathematics at the [[University of California, Los Angeles]], 1967–1990.<ref name="life">{{Cite web |title=Alonzo Church: Life and Work |url=https://www.math.ucla.edu/~hbe/church.pdf |access-date=2022-04-14 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901152639/https://www.math.ucla.edu/~hbe/church.pdf |archive-date=1 September 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was a Plenary Speaker at the [[International Congress of Mathematicians|ICM]] in 1962 in Stockholm.<ref>{{cite book |last=Church |first=Alonzo |chapter-url=http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1962.1/Main/icm1962.1.0023.0058.ocr.pdf |chapter=Logic, arithmetic and automata |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228050922/http://www.mathunion.org/ICM/ICM1962.1/Main/icm1962.1.0023.0058.ocr.pdf |archive-date=2013-12-28 |title=Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians |pages=23–35 |year=1962 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

He received honorary Doctor of Science degrees from [[Case Western Reserve University]] in 1969,<ref>{{cite web | title=Honorary degrees awarded by CWRU | website=case.edu | date=2004-02-06 | url=http://www.case.edu/pubaff/univcomm/awards/hon-deg.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060910162715/http://www.case.edu/pubaff/univcomm/awards/hon-deg.htm | archive-date=2006-09-10 | url-status=dead}}</ref> Princeton University in 1985,<ref>{{cite web | title=Honorary Degrees | website=Princeton University | date=2009-12-30 | url=http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/facts/honorary/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160207011946/http://www.princeton.edu/main/about/facts/honorary/ | archive-date=2016-02-07 | url-status=unfit}}</ref> and the [[University at Buffalo, The State University of New York]] in 1990 in connection with an international symposium in his honor organized by [[John Corcoran (logician)|John Corcoran]].<ref>{{cite web | title=The Honorary Degree Conferral of Doctor of Science to Alonzo Church, 1990 | website=State University of New York at Buffalo Archives | url=http://libweb1.lib.buffalo.edu:8080/findingaids/view?docId=ead/archives/ubar_1216.xml | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017083756/http://libweb1.lib.buffalo.edu:8080/findingaids/view?docId=ead/archives/ubar_1216.xml | archive-date=2013-10-17 | url-status=dead}}</ref>

He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the [[British Academy]] (FBA) in 1966,<ref>although some sources say he was elected to the British Academy in 1980, he was in fact elected in 1966. See: {{cite web | title=Professor Alonzo Church FBA | website=The British Academy | url=https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/alonzo-church-FBA/}} and {{Cite web |title=Alonzo Church: Life and Work |url=https://www.math.ucla.edu/~hbe/church.pdf |access-date=2022-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901152639/https://www.math.ucla.edu/~hbe/church.pdf |archive-date=2012-09-01 }}</ref> to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences|American Academy of the Arts and Sciences]] in 1967, to the [[National Academy of Sciences]] in 1978.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-01-21 |title=Alonzo Church '24 *27 |url=https://paw.princeton.edu/memorial/alonzo-church-%E2%80%9924-27 |access-date=2022-04-14 |website=Princeton Alumni Weekly |language=en}}</ref>

Church was a lifelong member of the [[Presbyterian]] church.<ref>{{cite web|title=Introduction Alonzo Church: Life and Work |url=https://www.math.ucla.edu/~hbe/church.pdf |access-date=6 June 2012 |page=4 |quote=A deeply religious person, he was a lifelong member of the Presbyterian church. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901152639/http://www.math.ucla.edu/~hbe/church.pdf |archive-date=1 September 2012 }}</ref> He died on August 11, 1995, at the age of 92.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/09/05/obituaries/alonzo-church-92-theorist-of-the-limits-of-mathematics.html|title=Alonzo Church, 92, Theorist Of the Limits of Mathematics|work=[[The New York Times]]|author=[[Nicholas Wade]]|date=September 5, 1995|page=B6}}</ref> He is buried in [[Princeton Cemetery]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cs.nmsu.edu/historical-projects/Projects/FoLundecidability.pdf|title=Undecidability of First-Order Logic}}</ref>