Cathleen Synge Morawetz
…Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at the New York University, where she had also served as director from 1984 to 1988. She was president of the American Mathematical Society from 1995 to 1996. She was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1998. Morawetz's father, John Lighton Synge, nephew of John Millington Synge, was…