Mary Tsingou
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Mary Tsingou (married name: Mary Tsingou-Menzel; born October 14, 1928) is an
Life
Mary Tsingou was born in
Career
Tsingou joined the theoretical division of the
Early MANIAC programmers included Mary Hunsberger Kircher. She was interviewed in 2002 by the IEEE History Center. Mary Tsingou-Menzel was also interviewed in 2002.
After Fermi's death, James L. Tuck and Tsingou-Menzel repeated the original FPUT results and provided strong indication that the nonlinear FPUT problem might be integrable.[5]
Tsingou-Menzel continued her computational career at Los Alamos. She was an early expert on Fortran. In the 1980s, she worked on calculations in the Star Wars program (the Strategic Defense Initiative).[6] She retired in 1991.[2]
Recognition
The paper published by Los Alamos National Lab in 1955 earned recognition for Fermi, Pasta, and Ulam for its novel discoveries, with Mary being acknowledge in the footnote. It was not until 2008, when an article published in
Publications
- J. L. Tuck; M. T. Menzel (1972). "The superperiod of the nonlinear weighted string (FPU) problem". .
- Joseph J. Devaney, Albert G. Petschek, Mary Tsingou Menzel. On the Production of Heavy Uranium Isotopes in a Very High Density Fast Neutron Flux (accessed Dec. 2012). Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1958; 17 pages.
See also
- Kathleen Antonelli
- Jean Bartik
- Adele Goldstine
- Mary Ann Mansigh
- Marlyn Meltzer
- Betty Holberton
- Frances Spence
- Ruth Teitelbaum
References
- ^ Mary Tsingou Menzel. IEEE Global History Network: Oral Histories. Accessed Nov 2012.
- ^ S2CID 118607235.
- ^ Fermi, E.; Pasta, J.; Ulam, S. (May 1955). "Studies of Nonlinear Problems". Document LA-1940. Retrieved 2024-04-11. Also appeared in Collected Works of Enrico Fermi, University of Chicago Press, Vol. II, 978–988 (1965).
- ^ Fermi, E. et al. (1955). _______ . Front page: "Work done by: E. Fermi J. Pasta S. Ulam M. Tsingou"; and footnote: "We wish to thank Miss Mary Tsingou ... for running the computations on the Los Alamos MANIAC machine, ..."
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- ^ a b Grant, Virginia (2020). "We thank Miss Mary Tsingou". National Security Science.
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External links
- Pioneer Women in Chaos Theory. Frank Y. Wang.
- The Fermi–Pasta–Ulam “numerical experiment”: history and pedagogical perspectives. Dauxois, Peyrard and Ruffo.
- A not-so-mysterious woman, Los Alamos Monitor online.
- A wrong righted, Philosophy of Science Portal, A Venue for Discussions of Science, Philosophy and the Arts
- Mary Tsingou-Menzel Oral History