Chia-Chiao Lin
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The native form of this personal name is Lin Chia-Chiao. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
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]
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Chia Chiao Lin | |||||||||||
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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 | Phyllis Fox Lee Segel Frank Shu David Benney | ||||||||||
Other notable students | Elizabeth Cuthill | ||||||||||
Chinese name | |||||||||||
Traditional Chinese | 林家翹 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 林家翘 | ||||||||||
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Lin made major contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow, mathematics, and astrophysics.