Norman N. Royall, Jr. Norman N. Royall, Jr.
Norman N. Royall, Jr.

Fulltime: 1947-1975

Ph.D. 1940, Mathematics, Brown University
M.A. 1935, Mathematics & Physics, Emory University
M.S. 1929, Mathematics, John B. Stetson University
B.S. 1929, Mathematics, John B. Stetson University
"Academy" degree 1925, Scientific Course, John B. Stetson Univ.

  • Mathematics Genealogy Project Entry

  • Pictures From: UKC Yearbooks 1951-1952, 1952-1953, 1958-1959, and 1962-1963





    • Norman N. Royall, Jr. Norman N. Royall, Jr.
  • Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 1947-1953



  • Nov. 2, 1962, Kansas City Star article p.6: "Professor's Philosophy Steeped in Practicality", by Charles Hammer.

  • UKC Yearbook 1962-1963: 1961 Series of 49 films on mathematics for the United States Armed Forces Institute (USAFI) in Madison, WI, for use on US military bases around the world.
    Five Polaroids of Royall during the filming on Calvin Productions Sound Stage:
    One, Two, Three, Four, and Five.

  • UKC Yearbook 1962-63:
    Royall paragraph

  • From: Nobelprize.org Quotation from Richard E. Smalley, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996, Autobiography:

    "I was born in Akron, Ohio on June 6, 1943...When I was three my family moved to Kansas City, Missouri... My interest in Science had many roots. Some came from my mother as she finished her B.A. Degree studies in college while I was in my teens. She fell in love with science, particularly as a result of classes on the Foundations of Physical Science taught by a magnificent mathematics professor at the University of Kansas City, Dr. Norman N. Royall, Jr. I was infected by this professor second hand, through hundreds of hours of conversations at my mother's knees."

  • 1974: Won the UM System "Thomas Jefferson Award", as a faculty member who "through personal influence and performance of duty in teaching, writing and scholarship, character and influence, devotion and loyalty to the University best exemplifies the principles and ideals of Thomas Jefferson. "

  • 1983: "Royall Hall" named for him.

  • Textbooks:
    • 1963, Modern College Algebra with an Introduction to Analytic Geometry
    • 1970, Analytic Geometry
    • 1971, Structural College Algebra and Finite Mathematics