Ellen Cole Fetter | |
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Alma mater |
New Trier High School Mount Holyoke College |
Known for | Chaos theory |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Florida State University |
Ellen Cole Fetter Gille is an American computer scientist. She worked with Edward Norton Lorenz on chaos theory.
Fetter was born to Frank Whitson Fetter and Elizabeth Garrett Pollard. [1] Her mother created an endowment for chamber music at Swarthmore College, which has been supported by successive generations of her family. [2] Fetter attended the Ecole Préalpina in Chexbres, Switzerland [3] and New Trier High School, from which she graduated in 1957. [4] She studied mathematics at Mount Holyoke College and graduated in 1961. [5]
In 1961, Fetter interviewed with a member of the team who used a LGP-30 in MIT's Department of Nuclear Engineering, who recommended her to Margaret Hamilton. [6] Hamilton soon moved on to another project, and Fetter took over the computational work for Edward Lorenz's research, plotting the motion of a particle experiencing fast convection in an idealised beaker. [6] The work was the foundation of chaos theory. [6] Fetter's contribution was acknowledged by Lorenz ‘Special thanks are due to Miss Ellen Fetter for handling the many numerical computations’ in his frequently referenced paper. [7]
In 1963, Fetter married John Gille, who was studying geophysics at MIT. [3] They moved to Florida State University, where she worked on programming for several years. [6] In the 1970s, she and her husband moved to Colorado, where Gille is now a senior scientist emeritus at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. [8] Fetter took computer science classes at the University of Colorado Boulder, but soon left to work in tax preparation. [6]
Fetter's daughter, Sarah Gille, studied physics at Yale University. She now works in physical oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. [9] [10]
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Ellen Cole Fetter | |
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Alma mater |
New Trier High School Mount Holyoke College |
Known for | Chaos theory |
Scientific career | |
Institutions |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Florida State University |
Ellen Cole Fetter Gille is an American computer scientist. She worked with Edward Norton Lorenz on chaos theory.
Fetter was born to Frank Whitson Fetter and Elizabeth Garrett Pollard. [1] Her mother created an endowment for chamber music at Swarthmore College, which has been supported by successive generations of her family. [2] Fetter attended the Ecole Préalpina in Chexbres, Switzerland [3] and New Trier High School, from which she graduated in 1957. [4] She studied mathematics at Mount Holyoke College and graduated in 1961. [5]
In 1961, Fetter interviewed with a member of the team who used a LGP-30 in MIT's Department of Nuclear Engineering, who recommended her to Margaret Hamilton. [6] Hamilton soon moved on to another project, and Fetter took over the computational work for Edward Lorenz's research, plotting the motion of a particle experiencing fast convection in an idealised beaker. [6] The work was the foundation of chaos theory. [6] Fetter's contribution was acknowledged by Lorenz ‘Special thanks are due to Miss Ellen Fetter for handling the many numerical computations’ in his frequently referenced paper. [7]
In 1963, Fetter married John Gille, who was studying geophysics at MIT. [3] They moved to Florida State University, where she worked on programming for several years. [6] In the 1970s, she and her husband moved to Colorado, where Gille is now a senior scientist emeritus at the National Center for Atmospheric Research. [8] Fetter took computer science classes at the University of Colorado Boulder, but soon left to work in tax preparation. [6]
Fetter's daughter, Sarah Gille, studied physics at Yale University. She now works in physical oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. [9] [10]
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