Cathleen Morawetz was born in Toronto, Ontario. She became a mathematician and the first female director of the Courant Institute in New York. She has written numerous articles about applications of partial differential equations, especially transonic flow and scattering theory.
BA, U of T, 1945; SM, MIT, 1946; PhD, NYU, 1951; came to US 1945, naturalized 1950; hon. degrees Eastern Mich. U, Smith Coll., Brown U, 1982; Princeton U., 1986; Duke U., 1988; NJ Inst. Tech., 1988; Research assoc. Courant Inst., NYU, 1952-57; assst. prof. math. 1957-60; assoc. prof. 1960-65; prof., 1965- ; asoc. dir., 1978-84; dir., 1984-88. Editor Journ. Math. Analytical Applications, Communications in PDE, Advanced Applications Math., Comm. in Pure and Applied Math.; author articles to applications of partial differential equations, especially transonic flow and scattering theory. Trustee Princeton U., 1973-78; Sloan Foundn., 1980- ; Guggenheim Fellow, 1967, 79; Office Naval Rsch. grantee until 1990; Fellow AAAS; mem. NAS, Am. Math. Soc; Am. Acad. Arts and Scies., Soc. Indsl. and Applied Math.
Sources: Who's Who in America, 1994
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