Chia-Chiao Lin

Chia Chiao Lin

Born| (1916-07-07)7 July 1916

Peking, China

Died| 13 January 2013(2013-01-13) (aged 96)

Beijing, China

Nationality| American[1]
Alma mater| California Institute of Technology
University of Toronto
National Tsinghua University
Known for| Hydrodynamic stability
turbulent flow
Awards| Fluid Dynamics Prize (1979)
Timoshenko Medal (1975)
Otto Laporte Award (1973)
Scientific career
Fields| Applied mathematics
Institutions| Caltech
Brown University
MIT
Thesis| Investigations on the Theory of Turbulence (1944)
Doctoral advisor| Theodore von Kármán
Doctoral students|

* David Benney
* Phyllis Fox
* Lee Segel
* Frank Shu
* Linda Sugiyama

Other notable students| Elizabeth Cuthill
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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 hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow, mathematics, and astrophysics.

## Contents

* 1 Biography
* 2 Honors and awards
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Biography

Lin was born in Beijing with ancestral roots in Fuzhou. In 1937 Lin graduated from the department of physics, Tsinghua University in Beijing.

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 Brown University between 1945 and 1947. Lin joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1947. Lin was promoted to professor at MIT in 1953 and became an Institute Professor of MIT in 1963. He was President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics from 1972 to 1974.[4] Lin retired from MIT in 1987.

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

1. ↑ "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. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/341596/Chia-Chiao-Lin. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
2. ↑ "Error: no `|title=` specified when using {{Cite web}}" (in Chinese). Tsinghua University. 2013-01-13. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130116145842/http://news.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/news/4205/2013/20130113145751956660184/20130113145751956660184_.html. Retrieved 13 January 2013.Error:+no+`|title=`+specified when+using+{{[[Template:Cite+web|Cite+web]]}}&rft.atitle=&rft.date=2013-01-13&rft.pub=Tsinghua+University&rft_id=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116145842/http://news.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/news/4205/2013/20130113145751956660184/20130113145751956660184_.html&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikibooks.org:Biography:Chia-Chiao_Lin">
3. ↑ "Chia-Chiao Lin (1916 - 2013)" (in en). Obituaries. American Astronomical Society. https://aas.org/obituaries/chia-chiao-lin-1916-2013.
4. ↑ Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics records
5. ↑ "Pioneering applied mathematician Chia-Chiao Lin dies at 96" (in en). 2013-01-14. https://news.mit.edu/2013/obit-chia-chiao-lin.
6. ↑ "Fluid Dynamics Prize". Amperican Physical Society. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Chia Chiao Lin. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
7. ↑ "NAS Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis". U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927204508/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_NAS_Award_Applied_Mathematics. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
8. ↑ "Timoshenko Medal". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. http://www.asme.org/Governance/Honors/SocietyAwards/Timoshenko_Medal.cfm. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
9. ↑ "Distinguished Alumni Award". California Institute of Technology. http://www.eas.caltech.edu/engenious/fall03/alumni.html. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
10. ↑ "Chia-Chiao Lin". http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/53239.html.
11. ↑ "Chia-Chiao Lin" (in en). https://www.amacad.org/person/chia-chiao-lin.
12. ↑ "APS Member History". https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Chia-Chiao+Lin&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced.

## External links

* Chia-Chiao Lin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
* Lin's profile

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John von Neumann Lecturers

* Lars Ahlfors (1960)
* Mark Kac (1961)
* Jean Leray (1962)
* Stanislaw Ulam (1963)
* Solomon Lefschetz (1964)
* Freeman Dyson (1965)
* Eugene Wigner (1966)
* Chia-Chiao Lin (1967)
* Peter Lax (1968)
* George F. Carrier (1969)
* James H. Wilkinson (1970)
* Paul Samuelson (1971)
* Jule Charney (1974)
* James Lighthill (1975)
* René Thom (1976)
* Kenneth Arrow (1977)
* Peter Henrici (1978)
* Kurt O. Friedrichs (1979)
* Keith Stewartson (1980)
* Garrett Birkhoff (1981)
* David Slepian (1982)
* Joseph B. Keller (1983)
* Jürgen Moser (1984)
* John W. Tukey (1985)
* Jacques-Louis Lions (1986)
* Richard M. Karp (1987)
* Germund Dahlquist (1988)
* Stephen Smale (1989)
* Andrew Majda (1990)
* R. Tyrrell Rockafellar (1992)
* Martin D. Kruskal (1994)
* Carl de Boor (1996)
* William Kahan (1997)
* Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1998)
* Charles S. Peskin (1999)
* Persi Diaconis (2000)
* David Donoho (2001)
* Eric Lander (2002)
* Heinz-Otto Kreiss (2003)
* Alan C. Newell (2004)
* Jerrold E. Marsden (2005)
* George C. Papanicolaou (2006)
* Nancy Kopell (2007)
* David Gottlieb (2008)
* Franco Brezzi (2009)
* Bernd Sturmfels (2010)
* Ingrid Daubechies (2011)
* John M. Ball (2012)
* Stanley Osher (2013)
* Leslie Greengard (2014)
* Jennifer Tour Chayes (2015)
* Donald Knuth (2016)
* Bernard J. Matkowsky (2017)
* Charles F. Van Loan (2018)

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