Jane Cronin Scanlon

Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon (July 17, 1922 – June 19, 2018) was 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] She died in June 2018 at the age of 95.[6]

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.
  6. ↑ Obituary for Dr. Jane Cronin Scanlon


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