Mary Tsingou-Menzel ( born Mary Tsingou-Menzel , birth name is Mary Tsingou ); born October 14, 1928, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) [1] is an American physicist and mathematician of Greek origin. Known as one of the first MANIAC computer programmers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and in collaboration with Enrico Fermi , John Pasta and Stanislav Ulam , who paved the way for the development of chaos theory and computational science.
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| Scientific field | physics , mathematics , computational sciences |
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| Alma mater | University of Wisconsin Madison , University of Michigan |
| Known as | Fermi paradox - Pasta - Ulama - Tsingu |
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Biography
Born in a family of Greeks from Bulgaria.
She graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and the University of Michigan.
In 1953, a research team of physicists Enrico Fermi, John Past, mathematician Stanislav Ulam and programmer Mary Tsing-Menzel formulated a paradox in chaos theory, called the Fermi – Past – Ulam paradox.
In 2008, an article by the French physicist Thierry Doksua was published in the scientific journal Physics Today , in which its author urged to rename the Fermi – Pasta – Ulam paradox to the Fermi – Pasta – Ulam – Tsingou paradox, thereby properly acknowledging the scientific contribution of Tsing-Menzel . Since then, this change is reflected in all works in which this paradox is mentioned [2] [3] .
Publications
- JL Tuck; MT Menzel (1972). "The superperiod of the nonlinear weighted string (FPU) problem." Advances in Mathematics (v. 9, pp. 399-407).
- Joseph J. Devaney, Albert G. Petschek, Mary Tsingou Menzel. On the Production of Heavy Uranium Isotopes in a Very High Density Fast Neutron Flux . Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory of the University of California, 1958; 17 pg.s.
Notes
- ↑ Mary Tsingou Menzel .
- ↑ Fermi-Pasta-Ulam nonlinear lattice oscillations .
- ↑ Dauxois, Thierry. Fermi, Pasta, Ulam, and a mysterious lady . Physics Today (January 2008).
Links
- Pioneer Women in Chaos Theory. Frank Y. Wang.
- The Fermi-Pasta-Ulam "numerical experiment": history and pedagogical perspectives. Dauxois, Peyrard and Ruffo.
- A not-so-mysterious woman , Los Alamos Monitor online.
- A wrong righted , Philosophy of Science Portal, A Venue for Discussions of Science, Philosophy and the Arts
- Mary Tsingou-Menzel Oral History