to receive the medal for work in mathematics. In 2004 she received the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement. In 2006 she won the George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics. In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. Morawetz was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and was the first woman to belong to the Applied Mathematics Section of that organization. Publications Personal life Morawetz lived in Greenwich Village with her husband Herbert Morawetz, a polymer chemist. They had four children, eight grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. Their children are Pegeen Rubinstein, John, Lida Jeck, and Nancy Morawetz (a professor at New York University School of Law who manages its Immigrant Rights Clinic). Upon being honored by the National Organization for Women for successfully combining career and family, Morawetz quipped, "Maybe I became a mathematician because I was so crummy at housework." She said her current non-mathematical interests are "grandchildren and sailing." References External links 1923 births 2017 deaths Canadian women academics Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Mathematical analysts National Medal of Science laureates Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty PDE theorists University of Toronto alumni Canadian women mathematicians Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Presidents of the American Mathematical Society Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Scientists from New York City Scientists from Toronto New York University alumni 20th-century women mathematicians 20th-century Canadian mathematicians 21st-century Canadian mathematicians 21st-century women mathematicians Mathematicians from New York (state) Canadian expatriates in the United States Members of the American Philosophical Society