Cathleen Synge Morawetz
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Cathleen Synge Morawetz (born May 5, 1923 in Toronto, Canada) is a mathematician. Her father, John Lighton Synge was an Irish physicist, specializing in the geometry of general relativity. Her childhood was split between Ireland and Canada.
Morawetz graduated from the University of Toronto in 1945 and received her master's degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her Ph.D. at New York University, with a thesis on the stability of a spherical implosion. She is Professor Emerita at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, where she served as director from 1984 to 1988.
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 is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a former president of the American Mathematical Society, a director of the Courant Institute and in 1998 she was awarded the National Medal of Science.
Dr. Morawetz now lives in Greenwich Village, NYC with her husband Herbert Morawetz, a polymer chemist. Their daughter, Nancy Morawetz, is a professor at New York University School of Law and teaches in its Immigrant Rights Clinic.
[edit] External links
- Cathleen Synge Morawetz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Cathleen Synge Morawetz". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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