Chia-Chiao Lin was a Chinese-born American applied mathematician and Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
12 Facts About Chia-Chiao Lin
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Chia-Chiao Lin was born in Beijing with ancestral roots in Fuzhou.
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In 1937 Chia-Chiao Lin graduated from the department of physics, National Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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In 1939 Chia-Chiao Lin won a Boxer Indemnity Scholarship and was initially supported to study in the United Kingdom.
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Unluckily, Chia-Chiao Lin's ship was stopped in Kobe, Japan, and all students had to return to China.
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Chia-Chiao Lin continued his studies in the United States and received his PhD from the California Institute of Technology in 1944 under Theodore von Karman.
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Chia-Chiao Lin taught at Brown University between 1945 and 1947.
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Chia-Chiao Lin joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1947.
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Chia-Chiao Lin was promoted to professor at MIT in 1953 and became an Institute Professor of MIT in 1963.
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Chia-Chiao Lin was President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics from 1972 to 1974.
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Chia-Chiao Lin was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, cited in the American Men and Women of Science.
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Chia-Chiao Lin was elected Academician of Academia Sinica in 1958, and became a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1994.