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American mathematician
Diane Marie Henderson is an American applied mathematician, specializing in
fluid dynamics and mathematical
oceanography .
[1] Unusually for a mathematics professor, some of her research involves physical experiments with
wave tanks , high speed cameras, and oil droplets.
[2]
Henderson earned her Ph.D. in
physical oceanography
[2] from the
University of California, San Diego in 1990. Her dissertation, Faraday Waves , was supervised by
John W. Miles .
[3]
She is a professor of mathematics at
Pennsylvania State University
[4] and one of two faculty members leading the William G. Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratory at Pennsylvania State University.
[5]
Henderson is a 1992 Packard Foundation Fellow.
[6]
She was awarded a
Sloan Research Fellowship in 1996.
[7]
References
^ Douglas, Jonathan (January 31, 2017),
"Scholars collaborate on fluid modeling problems" , Brown Daily Herald , retrieved 2019-08-20
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a
b Brown, Nancy Marie (January 1, 1998),
"On the Pinch-Off of a Pendant Drop" , Penn State News
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Diane Henderson at the
Mathematics Genealogy Project
^
Faculty , Pennsylvania State University Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2019-08-20
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William G. Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratory , retrieved 2019-08-20 ; Belmonte, Andrew,
Experimental Laboratories in US Mathematics Departments , Pennsylvania State University Department of Mathematics, retrieved 2019-08-20
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Diane M. Henderson, 1992 Fellow , The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, retrieved 2019-08-20
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"Sloan Foundation Awards Fellowships to 100 Researchers" , The Chronicle of Higher Education , May 3, 1996
External links
International National Academics