Mary Tsingou
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Mary Tsingou (married name: Mary Tsingou-Menzel; born October 14, 1928) is an American physicist and mathematician of Greek-Bulgarian descent.[1] She was one of the first programmers on the MANIAC computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory and is best known for having coded the celebrated computer experiment with Enrico Fermi, John Pasta, and Stanislaw Ulam. This experiment became an inspiration for the fields of chaos theory and scientific computing, and was a turning point in soliton theory.
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Born | Mary Tsingou (1928-10-14) 14 October 1928 (age 95) Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
Citizenship | United States |
Alma mater | University of Wisconsin University of Michigan |
Known for | Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics Scientific computing |
Institutions | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
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