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Born April 4, 1949 (age 77) • Shantou • China
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1983)
Subjects Of Study differential geometry • elliptic equation
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William Paul Thurston
American mathematician
Chern, Shiing-shen
Shiing-shen Chern
American mathematician
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Oswald Veblen
American mathematician
Louis Nirenberg
Louis Nirenberg
Canadian-born American mathematician
Isadore Singer receiving the Abel Prize
Isadore Singer
American mathematician
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Stephen Smale
American mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
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Jesse Douglas
American mathematician
John Griggs Thompson
John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
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Paul Joseph Cohen
American mathematician
Michael Freedman
Michael Freedman
American mathematician
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Charles Fefferman
American mathematician
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Daniel Gray Quillen
American mathematician
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Curtis McMullen
American mathematician
Movie still from Fist of Fury featuring Bruce Lee as Chen Zhen, directed by Lo Wei.
Bruce Lee
American-born actor
I.M. Pei
I.M. Pei
Chinese-born American architect
Ha Jin
Ha Jin
Chinese American writer
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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
Chinese writer
Li Hongzhi, 1999
Li Hongzhi
Chinese-born religious leader

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