Chia-Chiao Lin
Chia Chiao Lin | |||||||||||
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| Born | 7 July 1916 Peking, China | ||||||||||
| Died | 13 January 2013 (aged 96) Beijing, China | ||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
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| Other notable students | Elizabeth Cuthill | ||||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 林家翹 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 林家翘 | ||||||||||
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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.
Lin made major contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow, mathematics, and astrophysics.