Given the question: Facts: - residence: united states/china - doctoral students: phyllis fox lee segel frank shu - prizes: fluid 1975 -rrb- otto laporte award -lrb- 1973 -rrb- dynamics prize -lrb- 1979 -rrb- timoshenko medal -lrb- - known for: hydrodynamic stability turbulent flow - death date: 13 january 2013 - field: applied mathematics - doctoral advisor: theodore von karman - work institution: caltech mit -lrb- 1947-1987 -rrb- -lrb- 1943-1945 -rrb- brown university -lrb- 1945-1947 -rrb- - birth date: 7 july 1916 - name: chia chiao lin - ethnicity: chinese - nationality: united states - death place: beijing , china - birth place: peking , china - alma mater: california of toronto -lrb- m.sc. , 1941 -rrb- tsinghua university -lrb- institute 1937 -rrb- of technology -lrb- ph.d ,1944 -rrb- university Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of chia-chiao lin .
The answer is:
chia-chiao lin -lrb- chinese : ; 7 july 1916 -- 13 january 2013 -rrb- was a chinese-born american applied mathematician and institute professor emeritus at the massachusetts institute of technology .