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Chia-Chiao Lin

Chinese-American mathematician
Chia-Chiao Lin 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... Wikipedia
Born: July 7, 1916, Beijing, China
Died: January 13, 2013 (age 96 years), Beijing, China
Education: California Institute of Technology (1941–1944), University of Toronto (1940–1941), Tsinghua University (1937), and more
Notable students: Frank Shu, Lee Segel, David Benney, and more
Awards: Fluid Dynamics Prize (1979), Timoshenko Medal (1975), and Otto Laporte Award (1973)