"Theory of Turbulence" Chia-Chiao Lin Hand Signed FDC Dated 1963 Mueller COA

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Up for auction the "Theory of Turbulence" Chia-Chiao Lin Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1963.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Chia-Chiao Lin
(
Chinese
:
林家翹
; 7 July 1916 – 13 January 2013) was a Chinese-born American
applied mathematician
and
Institute Professor
at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
.
Lin made major contributions to the theory of
hydrodynamic stability
,
turbulent flow
,
mathematics
, and
astrophysics
. Lin was born in
Beijing
with ancestral roots in
Fuzhou
. In 1937 Lin graduated from the department of physics,
National Tsinghua University
in Beijing. After graduation he was an
assistant teaching
in the Tsinghua University physics department. In 1939 Lin won a
Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship
and initially was supported to study in the
United Kingdom
. However, due to
World War II
, Lin and several others were sent to
North America
by ship. Unluckily, Lin's ship was stopped in
Kobe
,
Japan
, and all students had to return to China. In 1940 Lin finally reached
Canada
and studied at the
University of Toronto
from which he earned his M.Sc. In 1941.
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Lin continued his studies in the
United States
and received his PhD from the
California Institute of Technology
in 1944 under
Theodore von Kármán
. His PhD thesis provided a analytic method to solve a problem in the stability of parallel shearing flows, which was the subject of
Werner Heisenberg
's PhD thesis.
Lin also taught at
Caltech
between 1943 and 1945. He taught at
Brown University
between 1945 and 1947. Lin joined the faculty of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in 1947. Lin was promoted to professor at
MIT
in 1953 and became an
Institute Professor
of
MIT
in 1963. He was President of the
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
from 1972 to 1974. Lin retired from MIT in 1987. In 2002, he moved back to China and help founded the Zhou Pei-Yuan Center for Applied Mathematics (ZCAM) at Tsinghua University. He died, aged 96, in
Beijing
.