Chia-Chiao Lin

Chia Chiao Lin
Born	7 July 1916 (1916-07-07) Peking, China
Residence	United States
Nationality	United States
Fields	Applied Mathematics
Institutions	Caltech (1943-1945) Brown University (1945-1947) MIT (1947-1987)
Alma mater	California Institute of Technology, University of Toronto
Doctoral advisor	Theodore von Kármán
Known for	Hydrodynamic stability turbulent flow
Notable awards	Fluid Dynamics Prize 1979 Timoshenko Medal 1975 Otto Laporte Award 1973

Chia-Chiao Lin (Chinese: 林家翹; born 1916) is an American applied mathematician and Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Biography

Lin is a native of Fuchou, Fuchien province, and was born in Peking, China. In 1937 Lin graduated from the department of physics, Tsinghua University in Beijing. After graduation Lin did assistant teaching in the Tsinghua University physics department. In 1939 Lin joined the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship Program and initially was supported to study in the United Kingdom. However, due to the furious warfare of World War II, Lin and the other several were sent to North America by ship. Unluckily, Lin's ship was stopped in Kobe, Japan, and all students had to return China. In 1940 Lin finally reached Canada and studied at the University of Toronto. In 1941 Lin earned M.Sc. from the University of Toronto.

Lin continued his study in the United States and received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1944 under Theodore von Kármán. Lin also taught at Caltech between 1943 and 1945. He taught at Brown University between 1945 and 1947. Lin joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1947. Lin was promoted to professor at MIT in 1953 and became the Institute Professor of MIT in 1963. Lin retired from MIT in 1987.

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

He was President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1972 to 1974.

Honors & awards

During his career Dr. Lin has received many prizes and awards, including:

• The first Fluid Dynamics Prize (from the American Physical Society, in 1979),
• The 1976 NAS Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis,
• The 1975 Timoshenko Medal,
• The 1973 Otto Laporte Award
• Caltech's Distinguished Alumni Award.

Lin is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, 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.

External links

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