Chia-Chiao Lin

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.

Chia Chiao Lin
Born(1916-07-07)7 July 1916
Peking, China
Died13 January 2013(2013-01-13) (aged 96)
Beijing, China
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCalifornia Institute of Technology
University of Toronto
National Tsinghua University
Known forHydrodynamic stability
turbulent flow
AwardsFluid Dynamics Prize (1979)
Timoshenko Medal (1975)
Otto Laporte Award (1973)
Scientific career
FieldsApplied mathematics
InstitutionsCaltech
Brown University
MIT
ThesisInvestigations on the Theory of Turbulence (1944)
Doctoral advisorTheodore von Kármán
Doctoral studentsPhyllis Fox
Lee Segel
Frank Shu
David Benney
Other notable studentsElizabeth Cuthill
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese林家翹
Simplified Chinese林家翘

Lin made major contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow, mathematics, and astrophysics.

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