Awards & Winners

Shiing-Shen Chern

Date of Birth 26-October-1911
Place of Birth Jiaxing
(China, Zhejiang)
Nationality United States of America, China, Taiwan
Profession Mathematician, Scientist
Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-born American mathematician. He was regarded as one of the leaders in differential geometry of the twentieth century.

Awards by Shiing-Shen Chern

Check all the awards nominated and won by Shiing-Shen Chern.

1983


Wolf Prize in Mathematics
(for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.)

1975


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(For developing and extending techniques that led to profound discoveries in geometry and topology.)

1970


Chauvenet Prize
(For his writing Curves and Surfaces in Euclidean Space.)