Education
Morawetz graduated from the University of Toronto in 1945 and received her master's degree in 1946 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Morawetz got a job at New York University where she edited Supersonic Flow and Shock Waves by Richard Courant and Kurt Friedrichs. She earned her Ph.D. at New York University, with a thesis on the stability of a spherical implosion. She became an American citizen in 1951.
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