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Cathleen Synge Morawetz
Cathleen Synge Morawetz was a Canadian mathematician who spent much of her career in the United States. Morawetz's research was mainly in the study of the partial differential equations governing fluid flow, particularly those of mixed type occurring in transonic flow. She was professor emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the New York University, where she had also served…
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science · Canadian mathematician (1923–2017) · mathematician · university teacher · also Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Cathleen S. Morawetz, Cathleen Morawetz, Dr. Cathleen Synge, Morawetz
Born 5 May 1923 · Died 8 August 2017 · Q450331
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2017· 1 entry
2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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2009· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009).
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded George David Birkhoff Prize (2006).
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Won the George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2004).
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1998· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (1998).
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Was awarded the National Medal of Science; she was the first woman to receive the medal for work in mathematics
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Krieger–Nelson Prize (1997).
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1996· 1 entry
Was awarded an honorary ScD degree by Trinity College Dublin, where her father JL Synge had been a student and later a faculty member
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1995· 2 entries
Became the second woman elected to the office of president of the American Mathematical Society
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Career landmark: president (1995–1997).
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1984· 2 entries
Awarded Jeffery–Williams Prize (1984).
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Career landmark: director (1984–1988).
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1983· 1 entry
And in 1988, she was selected as a Noether Lecturer
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1981).
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Became the first woman to deliver the Gibbs Lecture of The American Mathematical Society, and in 1982, presented an Invited Address at a meeting of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
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1980· 2 entries
Awarded Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards (1980).
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Brown University, and Smith College in 1982, and Princeton in 1990
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1966).
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1957· 1 entry
Became an assistant professor at Courant
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1951· 2 entries
At New York University, with a thesis on the stability of a spherical implosion, under the supervision of Kurt Otto Friedrichs
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Studied at New York University, Doctor of Philosophy (1951).
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1946· 2 entries
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, master's degree (1945–1946).
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1945· 1 entry
Studied at University of Toronto, bachelor's degree (1945).
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1923· 1 entry
Born 1923-05-05.
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