Ellen Fetter
Ellen Cole Fetter | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | New Trier High School Mount Holyoke College |
| Known for | Chaos theory |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Florida State University |
Ellen Cole Fetter Gille is an American computer scientist. She worked with Edward Norton Lorenz on chaos theory.
Early life and education
Fetter was born to Frank Fetter and Elizabeth Garrett Pollard.[1] Her mother created an endowment for chamber music at Swarthmore College, which has been supported by successive generations of her family.[2] Fetter attended New Trier High School and graduated in 1957.[3] She studied mathematics at Mount Holyoke College and graduated in 1961.[4]
Career
Fetter married John Gille in 1963.[5] She moved to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1963.[6] She was interviewed by a member of the team who used a LGP-30 in the Department of Engineering.[6] She worked alongside Margaret Hamilton in Building 24.[6] That year, she performed the computational work for Edward Norton Lorenz's work on chaos.[6] Fetter plotted the motion of a particle experiencing fast convection in an idealised beaker.[6] The work was the foundation of chaos theory.[6]
Fetter joined Florida State University where she worked on programming.[6] She started to study computer science at the University of Colorado Boulder, but soon left to work in tax preparation.[6]
Fetter had a daughter, Sarah, who studied engineering at Yale University. She works in physical oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.[6]
References
- ^ "Deaths" (PDF). Friends Journal. 1992. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ dpulley1. "Fetter Chamber Group Gives Back | Music and Dance". Retrieved 2019-05-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "New Trier Class of 1957". newtrier57.org. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ College, Mount Holyoke. "Honor Roll". blog.mtholyoke.edu. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ Times, Special to The New York (1963-07-14). "John Gille to Wed Miss Ellen Fetter". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Sokol, Joshua. "The Hidden Heroines of Chaos". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2019-05-24.