Chia-Chiao Lin
Chia Chiao Lin | |
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Born | MIT | 7 July 1916
Thesis | Investigations on the Theory of Turbulence (1944) |
Doctoral advisor | Theodore von Kármán |
Doctoral students | Phyllis Fox Lee Segel Frank Shu David Benney |
Other notable students | Elizabeth Cuthill |
Chinese name | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Lín Jiāqiáo |
Wade–Giles | Lin2 Chia1-ch'iao2 |
IPA | [lǐn tɕjátɕʰjǎʊ] |
Chia-Chiao Lin (Chinese: 林家翹; 7 July 1916 – 13 January 2013) was a Chinese-born American applied mathematician and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]
Lin made major contributions to the theory of
Biography
Lin was born in
After graduation he was a teaching assistant in the Tsinghua University physics department. In 1939 Lin won a Boxer Indemnity Scholarship and was initially supported to study in the United Kingdom. However, due to World War II, Lin and several others were sent to North America by ship. Unluckily, Lin's ship was stopped in Kobe, Japan, and all students had to return to China.
In 1940, Lin finally reached Canada and studied at the University of Toronto from which he earned his M.Sc. In 1941. Lin continued his studies in the United States and received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1944 under Theodore von Kármán. His PhD thesis provided an analytic method to solve a problem in the stability of parallel shearing flows, which was the subject of Werner Heisenberg's PhD thesis.[3]
Lin also taught at Caltech between 1943 and 1945. He taught at
In 2002, he moved back to China and helped found the Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics (ZCAM) at Tsinghua University. He died in Beijing in 2013, aged 96.[5]
Honors and awards
During his career Lin has received many prizes and awards, including:
- The first Fluid Dynamics Prize (from the American Physical Society, in 1979)[6]
- The 1976 NAS Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis[7]
- The 1975 Timoshenko Medal[8]
- The 1973 Otto Laporte Award
- Caltech's Distinguished Alumni Award[9]
Lin was a member of the National Academy of Sciences,[10] the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[11] and the American Philosophical Society,[12] cited in the American Men and Women of Science. and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lin was elected Academician of Academia Sinica in 1958, and became a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994.
References
- ^ "Chia Chiao Lin (American astronomer) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia: "The American astronomers Chia-Chiao Lin and Frank H. Shu showed that a spiral shape is a natural result of any large-scale disturbance of the density distribution of stars in a galactic disk. When the interaction of the..."". Britannica Online Encyclopedia. 2006-12-09. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
- ^ 著名科学家林家翘逝世 胡和平前往吊唁 (in Chinese). Tsinghua University. 2013-01-13. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
- ^ "Chia-Chiao Lin (1916 - 2013)". Obituaries. American Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 2018-12-28.
- ^ Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics records
- ^ "Pioneering applied mathematician Chia-Chiao Lin dies at 96". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2024-06-11.
- ^ "Fluid Dynamics Prize". Amperican Physical Society. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the originalon 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ^ "Timoshenko Medal". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ^ "Distinguished Alumni Award". California Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
- ^ "Chia-Chiao Lin". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
- ^ "Chia-Chiao Lin". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
External links
- Chia-Chiao Lin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Lin's profile Archived 2012-03-03 at the Wayback Machine