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Mary Tsingou

American physicist and mathematician · United States · On the map · Scientists · Born 1928 · age 98

Mary Tsingou is an American physicist and mathematician of Greek-Bulgarian descent. 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.

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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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United States
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Scientists
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Scientist
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Born 1928 · age 98