Chia-Chiao Lin

<h2 id="biography">Biography</h2>
Lin was born in <a href="/facts/Beijing/Bg4puFBv">Beijing</a> with ancestral roots in <a href="/facts/Fuzhou/cwdq5LnU">Fuzhou</a>. In 1937 Lin graduated from the department of physics, <a href="/facts/National_Tsinghua_University/xck41c1T">National Tsinghua University</a> in Beijing. 
After graduation he was a <a href="/facts/Teaching_assistant/c2VrymHV">teaching assistant</a> in the Tsinghua University physics department. In 1939 Lin won a <a href="/facts/Boxer_Indemnity_Scholarship/7bfKSWEk">Boxer Indemnity Scholarship</a> and was initially supported to study in the <a href="/facts/United_Kingdom/kuPAILt2">United Kingdom</a>. However, due to <a href="/facts/World_War_II/2efV5L1U">World War II</a>, Lin and several others were sent to <a href="/facts/North_America/djNjCQIl">North America</a> by ship. Unluckily, Lin's ship was stopped in <a href="/facts/Kobe/BRn7TPho">Kobe</a>, <a href="/facts/Empire_of_Japan/gMpNKg2W">Japan</a>, and all students had to return to China. 
In 1940, Lin finally reached <a href="/facts/Canada/cWWFM8oc">Canada</a> and studied at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Toronto/FpGjQNm9">University of Toronto</a> from which he earned his M.Sc. In 1941. Lin continued his studies in the <a href="/facts/United_States/P0sCdLe5">United States</a> and received his PhD from the <a href="/facts/California_Institute_of_Technology/3FPcp7BL">California Institute of Technology</a> in 1944 under <a href="/facts/Theodore_von_K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n/VrXvCzyb">Theodore von Kármán</a>. His PhD thesis provided an analytic method to solve a problem in the stability of parallel shearing flows, which was the subject of <a href="/facts/Werner_Heisenberg/n4qzYvj4">Werner Heisenberg</a>'s PhD thesis.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2">2</a>
Lin also taught at Caltech between 1943 and 1945. He taught at <a href="/facts/Brown_University/o9MRu4jx">Brown University</a> between 1945 and 1947. Lin joined the faculty of the <a href="/facts/Massachusetts_Institute_of_Technology/Xk49vNA8">Massachusetts Institute of Technology</a> in 1947. Lin was promoted to professor at <a href="/facts/MIT/Xk49vNA8">MIT</a> in 1953 and became an <a href="/facts/Institute_Professor/z2UdmJpD">Institute Professor</a> of <a href="/facts/MIT/Xk49vNA8">MIT</a> in 1963. He was President of the <a href="/facts/Society_for_Industrial_and_Applied_Mathematics/2HY4T5WY">Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics</a> from 1972 to 1974.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3">3</a> Lin retired from MIT in 1987. 
In 2002, he moved back to China and helped found the Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics (ZCAM) at Tsinghua University. He died in <a href="/facts/Beijing/Bg4puFBv">Beijing</a> in 2013, aged 96.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4">4</a>

<h2 id="honors-and-awards">Honors and awards</h2>
During his career Lin has received many prizes and awards, including:

<ul><li>The first <a href="/facts/Fluid_Dynamics_Prize/jmfokGvN">Fluid Dynamics Prize</a> (from the <a href="/facts/American_Physical_Society/DCkkU6dD">American Physical Society</a>, in 1979)<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5">5</a></li>
<li>The 1976 NAS Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6">6</a></li>
<li>The 1975 <a href="/facts/Timoshenko_Medal/CDSudf4b">Timoshenko Medal</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7">7</a></li>
<li>The 1973 <a href="/facts/Otto_Laporte_Award/1UdgAA4b">Otto Laporte Award</a></li>
<li>Caltech's Distinguished Alumni Award<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8">8</a></li></ul>
Lin was a member of the <a href="/facts/National_Academy_of_Sciences/M3oePVeG">National Academy of Sciences</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9">9</a> the <a href="/facts/American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences/KptWYgz4">American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10">10</a> and the <a href="/facts/American_Philosophical_Society/auqTbV2C">American Philosophical Society</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11">11</a> cited in the <a href="/facts/American_Men_and_Women_of_Science/FRP1QFhX">American Men and Women of Science</a>. and a Fellow of the <a href="/facts/American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science/zfWYugCg">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a>. Lin was elected Academician of <a href="/facts/Academia_Sinica/qpeMTIRX">Academia Sinica</a> in 1958, and became a Foreign Member of the <a href="/facts/Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences/zzHb3yVm">Chinese Academy of Sciences</a> in 1994.

<h2 id="external-links">External links</h2>
<ul><li><a href="https://mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=13385">Chia-Chiao Lin</a> at the <a href="/facts/Mathematics_Genealogy_Project/J7AFo1Do">Mathematics Genealogy Project</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www-math.mit.edu/people/profile.php?pid=155">Lin's profile</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120303003652/http://www-math.mit.edu/people/profile.php?pid=155">Archived</a> 2012-03-03 at the <a href="/facts/Wayback_Machine/nmQ3a6JC">Wayback Machine</a></li></ul>

<h2 id="references">References</h2>

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<li id="fn:1">著名科学家林家翘逝世 胡和平前往吊唁 (in Chinese). Tsinghua University. 2013-01-13. Archived from the original on 16 January 2013. Retrieved 13 January 2013. <a href="著名科学家林家翘逝世 胡和平前往吊唁" target="_blank">著名科学家林家翘逝世 胡和平前往吊唁</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:2">"Chia-Chiao Lin (1916 - 2013)". Obituaries. American Astronomical Society. Archived from the original on 2018-12-28. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181228083136/https://aas.org/obituaries/chia-chiao-lin-1916-2013" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20181228083136/https://aas.org/obituaries/chia-chiao-lin-1916-2013</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:3">Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics records <a href="http://www.siam.org/about/more/presidents.php" target="_blank">http://www.siam.org/about/more/presidents.php</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:4">"Pioneering applied mathematician Chia-Chiao Lin dies at 96". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2013-01-14. Retrieved 2024-06-11. <a href="https://news.mit.edu/2013/obit-chia-chiao-lin" target="_blank">https://news.mit.edu/2013/obit-chia-chiao-lin</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:5">"Fluid Dynamics Prize". Amperican Physical Society. Retrieved 2007-12-02. <a href="http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Chia%20Chiao%20Lin" target="_blank">http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?name=Chia%20Chiao%20Lin</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:6">"NAS Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis". U.S. National Academy of Sciences. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-12-02. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070927204508/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_NAS_Award_Applied_Mathematics" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20070927204508/http://www.nasonline.org/site/PageServer?pagename=AWARDS_NAS_Award_Applied_Mathematics</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:7">"Timoshenko Medal". American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Retrieved 2007-12-02. <a href="http://www.asme.org/Governance/Honors/SocietyAwards/Timoshenko_Medal.cfm" target="_blank">http://www.asme.org/Governance/Honors/SocietyAwards/Timoshenko_Medal.cfm</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:8">"Distinguished Alumni Award". California Institute of Technology. Archived from the original on 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2007-12-02. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080725173551/http://www.eas.caltech.edu/engenious/fall03/alumni.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20080725173551/http://www.eas.caltech.edu/engenious/fall03/alumni.html</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:9">"Chia-Chiao Lin". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-07-14. <a href="http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/53239.html" target="_blank">http://www.nasonline.org/member-directory/deceased-members/53239.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:10">"Chia-Chiao Lin". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-07-14. <a href="https://www.amacad.org/person/chia-chiao-lin" target="_blank">https://www.amacad.org/person/chia-chiao-lin</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
<li id="fn:11">"APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-07-14. <a href="https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Chia-Chiao+Lin&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced" target="_blank">https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=Chia-Chiao+Lin&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></li>
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