Carolyne Marina Van Vliet (1929 – 2016) was a Dutch-American physicist notable for the theory of generation-recombination noise and for the theory of quantum transport in Statistical_mechanics#Non-equilibrium_statistical_mechanics, as well as for her many contributions to the foundations of Linear Response Theory. She was a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS)[1] and of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).[2][3]