Shiing-shen Chern: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Ch’en Hsing-shen • Chen Xingshen
Born October 26, 1911 • Jiaxing • China
Died December 3, 2004 (aged 93) • Tianjin • China

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Shing-Tung Yau
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Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
Isadore Singer
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Oswald Veblen
American mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Movie still from Fist of Fury featuring Bruce Lee as Chen Zhen, directed by Lo Wei.
Bruce Lee
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I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
Ha Jin
Ha Jin
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Harry Hongda Wu
Chinese-American activist
Portrait of writer Zhang Ailing, also known as Eileen Chang, wearing a patterned silk jacket and round earrings, looking slightly upward.
Zhang Ailing
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Li Hongzhi, 1999
Li Hongzhi
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Daniel C. Tsui
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Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
Chinese American computer scientist
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Charles Kao
British-American physicist
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chien-Shiung Wu
Chinese-American physicist
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An Wang
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French philosopher Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
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Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
Pierre de Fermat
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How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Bernhard Riemann, lithograph after a portrait, artist unknown, 1863.
Bernhard Riemann
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