Cathleen Synge Morawetz Pure and Applied Mathematics Pioneering advances in partial differential equations and wave propagation math used in aerodynamics, acoustics and optics "Maybe I became a mathematician because I was so crummy at housework."

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• M. Brock Fenton
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• Crawford S. Holling
• Edith Berkely
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• Harold Leslie Atwood
• Helen Irene Battle
• David T. Suzuki
• Bryan Patrick Beirne
• Brian Hall
• Charles J. Krebs
• William Ricker
• Biruté Galdikas
• Kathy Conlan