Roland Glowinski
Roland Glowinski · Science & Medicine
Computational mechanician; von Kármán Prize (2004)
1937, Paris, France — 2022, Houston, Texas, United States
France · United States
Roland Glowinski is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Computational mechanician; von Kármán Prize (2004)
Glowinski was a French-American applied mathematician, a leading figure in the numerical solution of partial differential equations and variational inequalities, whose methods are used across computational science and engineering; he received the von Kármán Prize in 2004. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and held a chair at the University of Houston. He was the son of Polish Jewish immigrants who were hidden by French families in the countryside during the Holocaust.
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Computational mechanician; von Kármán Prize (2004)
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