Jane Smiley Cronin Scanlon (July 17, 1922 – June 19, 2018) was an American mathematician and an emeritus professor of mathematics at Rutgers University.
[3] She completed her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1949, under the supervision of Erich Rothe.
Her dissertation was Branch Points of Solutions of Equations in Banach Space.
In 1974 Scanlon was elected as an AMS Member at Large and held the position until 1976.
[8] Her talks concerned "entrainment of frequency" and the application of this principle to mathematical models of the Purkinje fibers in the heart.