Chia-Chiao Lin
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| Born | Foochow, China |
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| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | China |
| Institution | Caltech (1943-1945) Brown (1945-1947) MIT (1947-1987) |
| Alma mater | California Institute of Technology (PhD) - 1944 |
| Academic advisor | Theodore von Kármán |
| Known for | Hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow |
Chia-Chiao Lin is a mathematician and Institute Professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1944, taught there between 1943 and 1945. He taught at Brown University between 1945 and 1947. He joined MIT in 1947 and retired in 1987. He made major contributions to the theory of hydrodynamic stability, turbulent flow, mathematics, and astrophysics.
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