January 8, 1999

Female Mathematician to Receive National Medal of Science

As a mathematician, Cathleen Synge Morawetz has spent a lot of time studying shock waves. Now she's created one herself.

In December, Ms. Morawetz became the first female mathematician to win the National Medal of Science. The lofty award will be presented by President Clinton.

Ms. Morawetz, a professor emerita at New York University, won the prize for her work on "partial differential equations," a

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