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Jane Cronin Scanlon
Personal details
Born July 17, 1922
Manhattan
Died June 19, 2018
Spouse Joseph Scanlon
Children 4
Alma mater University of Michigan

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]

Education and career[]

Scanlon earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Wayne University (now Wayne State University).[3] She completed her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1949, under the supervision of Erich Rothe. Her dissertation was Branch Points of Solutions of Equations in Banach Space.[1][2][4]

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. In 1974 Scanlon was elected as an AMS Member at Large and held the position until 1976.[5] She retired in 1991.[1][2][6] During her twenty-six years at Rutgers, she supervised seven doctoral students.[7]

She died in June 2018 at the age of 95.[3]

Recognition[]

Scanlon was a Noether Lecturer in 1985,[1] and Pi Mu Epsilon J. Sutherland Frame Lecturer in 1989.[8] Her talks concerned "entrainment of frequency" and the application of this principle to mathematical models of the Purkinje fibers in the heart.[1][8] In 2012, she became one of the inaugural fellows of the American Mathematical Society.[9]

Personal life[]

She married the physicist Joseph Scanlon in 1953. The two divorced in 1979.[7] Upon her death, she was survived by four children and seven grandchildren.[3]

Selected publications[]

Articles[]

Books[]

as editor[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Jane Cronin Scanlon". Profiles of Women in Mathematics. Association for Women in Mathematics. http://www.math.unl.edu/~awm/awm_folder/NoetherBrochure/Scanlon85.html. .
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Riddle, Larry. "Jane Cronin Scanlon". Biographies of Women Mathematicians. Agnes Scott College. http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/scanlon.htm. .
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Obituary for Dr. Jane Cronin Scanlon
  4. Template:Mathgenealogy
  5. "AMS Committees" (in en). http://www.ams.org/about-us/governance/committees/mal-past.html. 
  6. Bart, Jody (2000). "Women Succeeding in the Sciences: Theories and Practices Across Disciplines". Purdue University Press. p. 92. ISBN 9781557531216. https://books.google.com/books?id=baK6XSXhrS8C&pg=PA92. .
  7. 7.0 7.1 Aboufadel, Edward F. (October 2019). "In Memoriam: Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon". pp. 1448–1452. Digital object identifier:10.1090/noti1948. https://www.ams.org/journals/notices/201909/rnoti-p1448.pdf. 
  8. 8.0 8.1 J. Sutherland Frame Lectures, Pi Mu Epsilon
  9. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2014-12-25.
  10. Ricardo, Henry (July 27, 2010). "Review of Differential equations: Introduction and Qualitative Theory, 3rd edition". https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/ordinary-differential-equations-introduction-and-qualitative-theory. 
  11. Starmer, C. Frank (1989). "Review of Mathematical Aspects of Hodgkin-Huxley Neural Theory by Jane Cronin". p. 95. Digital object identifier:10.1086/416197. ISSN 0033-5770. 

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