Jane Cronin Scanlon
BornJuly 17, 1922
Manhattan
DiedJune 19, 2018
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
SpouseJoseph Scanlon
Children4
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsRutgers University
Thesis (1949)
Doctoral advisorsErich Rothe

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 2 3 4 5 "Jane Cronin Scanlon", Profiles of Women in Mathematics, Association for Women in Mathematics, archived from the original on 2008-09-07, retrieved 2018-11-01.
  2. 1 2 3 Riddle, Larry, "Jane Cronin Scanlon", Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College, retrieved 2014-12-25.
  3. 1 2 3 Obituary for Dr. Jane Cronin Scanlon
  4. ↑ Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ "AMS Committees". American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2023-03-28.
  6. ↑ Bart, Jody (2000), Women Succeeding in the Sciences: Theories and Practices Across Disciplines, Purdue University Press, p. 92, ISBN 9781557531216.
  7. 1 2 Aboufadel, Edward F. (October 2019). "In Memoriam: Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 66 (9): 1448–1452. doi:10.1090/noti1948.
  8. 1 2 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". MAA Reviews.
  11. ↑ Starmer, C. Frank (1989). "Review of Mathematical Aspects of Hodgkin-Huxley Neural Theory by Jane Cronin". The Quarterly Review of Biology. 64 (1): 95. doi:10.1086/416197. ISSN 0033-5770.
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