Jane Cronin Scanlon

Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon (born July 17, 1922) is an American mathematician and an emeritus professor of mathematics at Rutgers University. Her research concerned partial differential equations and mathematical biology.[1][2]

Scanlon earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1949, under the supervision of Erich Rothe.[1][2][3] After working for the United States Air Force and the American Optical Company, she returned to academia as a lecturer at Wheaton College (Massachusetts) and then Stonehill College. She moved to the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1957, and to Rutgers in 1965. She retired in 1991.[1][2][4]

Scanlon was a Noether Lecturer in 1985.[1] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Jane Cronin Scanlon", Profiles of Women in Mathematics (Association for Women in Mathematics), retrieved 2014-12-25.
  2. 1 2 3 Riddle, Larry, "Jane Cronin Scanlon", Biographies of Women Mathematicians (Agnes Scott College), retrieved 2014-12-25.
  3. ↑ Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Bart, Jody (2000), Women Succeeding in the Sciences: Theories and Practices Across Disciplines, Purdue University Press, p. 92, ISBN 9781557531216.
  5. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-12-25.


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