Chia-Chiao Lin

Chia-Chiao Lin (Chinese: 林家翹; 7 July 1916 – 13

January 2013) was a Chinese-born American applied Chia Chiao Lin
mathematician and Institute Professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]

Lin made major contributions to the theory of

hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow, mathematics,
and astrophysics.

Biography
Lin was born in Beijing with ancestral roots in Fuzhou.
In 1937 Lin graduated from the department of physics,
National Tsinghua University in Beijing.
Born 7 July 1916
After graduation he was a teaching assistant in the
Peking, China
Tsinghua University physics department. In 1939 Lin
won a Boxer Indemnity Scholarship and was initially Died 13 January 2013
supported to study in the United Kingdom. However, (aged 96)
due to World War II, Lin and several others were sent Beijing, China
to North America by ship. Unluckily, Lin's ship was Nationality American[1]
stopped in Kobe, Japan, and all students had to return Alma mater California Institute of
to China. Technology
University of Toronto
In 1940, Lin finally reached Canada and studied at the
National Tsinghua
University of Toronto from which he earned his M.Sc. University
In 1941. Lin continued his studies in the United States
Known for Hydrodynamic stability
and received his PhD from the California Institute of
turbulent flow
Technology in 1944 under Theodore von Kármán. His
PhD thesis provided an analytic method to solve a Awards Fluid Dynamics Prize
problem in the stability of parallel shearing flows, (1979)

which was the subject of Werner Heisenberg's PhD Timoshenko Medal (1975)
thesis.[3] Otto Laporte Award
(1973)
Lin also taught at Caltech between 1943 and 1945. He Scientific career
taught at Brown University between 1945 and 1947.
Fields Applied mathematics
Lin joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in 1947. Lin was promoted to professor at Institutions Caltech
MIT in 1953 and became an Institute Professor of MIT Brown University
MIT
in 1963. He was President of the Society for Industrial Thesis Investigations on the
and Applied Mathematics from 1972 to 1974.[4] Lin Theory of Turbulence
retired from MIT in 1987. (1944)
Doctoral advisor Theodore von Kármán
In 2002, he moved back to China and helped found the
Doctoral students David Benney
Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics
(ZCAM) at Tsinghua University. He died in Beijing in Phyllis Fox
2013, aged 96.[5] Lee Segel
Frank Shu
Linda Sugiyama
Honors and awards
Other notable Elizabeth Cuthill
During his career Lin has received many prizes and students
awards, including: Chinese name

The first Fluid Dynamics Prize (from the Traditional Chinese 林家翹
American Physical Society, in 1979)[6] Simplified Chinese 林家翘
The 1976 NAS Award in Applied Mathematics Transcriptions
and Numerical Analysis[7]
Standard Mandarin
The 1975 Timoshenko Medal[8]
Hanyu Pinyin Lín Jiāqiáo
The 1973 Otto Laporte Award
Wade–Giles Lin2 Chia1-ch'iao2
Caltech's Distinguished Alumni Award[9]
IPA [lǐn tɕjátɕʰjǎʊ]
Lin was a member of the National Academy of
Sciences,[10] the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences,[11] and the American Philosophical Society,[12] 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.

References
1. "Chia Chiao Lin (American astronomer) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia: "The American
astronomers Chia-Chiao Lin and Frank H. Shu showed that a spiral shape is a natural result
of any large-scale disturbance of the density distribution of stars in a galactic disk. When the
interaction of the..."" (http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/341596/Chia-Chiao-Lin).
Britannica Online Encyclopedia. 2006-12-09. Retrieved January 1, 2010.
2. 著名科学家林家翘逝世 胡和平前往吊唁 (https://web.archive.org/web/20130116145842/htt
p://news.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/news/4205/2013/20130113145751956660184/201301131
45751956660184_.html) (in Chinese). Tsinghua University. 2013-01-13. Archived from the
original (http://news.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/news/4205/2013/20130113145751956660184/
20130113145751956660184_.html) on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2013.
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g/obituaries/chia-chiao-lin-1916-2013). Obituaries. American Astronomical Society. Archived
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idents.php)
 5. "Pioneering applied mathematician Chia-Chiao Lin dies at 96" (https://news.mit.edu/2013/ob
it-chia-chiao-lin). MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2013-01-14. Retrieved
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e=Chia%20Chiao%20Lin). Amperican Physical Society. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
7. "NAS Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis" (https://web.archive.org/web/2
0070927204508/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_NAS_Aw
ard_Applied_Mathematics). U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original
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thematics) on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
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_Medal.cfm). American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 2007-12-02.
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s.caltech.edu/engenious/fall03/alumni.html). California Institute of Technology. Archived from
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10. "Chia-Chiao Lin" (http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/53239.ht
ml). www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-07-14.
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12. "APS Member History" (https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Chia-Chiao+
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External links
Chia-Chiao Lin (https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=13385) at the Mathematics Genealogy
Project
Lin's profile (http://www-math.mit.edu/people/profile.php?pid=155) Archived (https://web.arc
hive.org/web/20120303003652/http://www-math.mit.edu/people/profile.php?pid=155) 2012-
03-03 at the Wayback Machine

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