Category:Shiing-Shen Chern

**Shiing-Shen Chern**
	Chinese-American mathematician and poet (1911-2004)
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Name in native language	陳省身 (Chén Xǐngshēn);
Date of birth	26 October 1911; Jiaxing; 陳省身
Date of death	3 December 2004; Tianjin
Manner of death	natural causes;
Cause of death	heart failure;
Place of burial	tomb of Shiing-Shen Chern (39°6′4.673″N 117°10′14.509″E);
Country of citizenship	People's Republic of China; United States of America (1961–);
Educated at	Tsinghua University (1930–1934); University of Hamburg (1934–1936); Nankai University (1926–1930); Science Faculty of Paris (1936–1937);
Doctoral advisor	Wilhelm Blaschke;
Doctoral student	Shing-Tung Yau; Louis Auslander; Katsumi Nomizu; Manfredo do Carmo; Howard Garland; Robert Brown Gardner; Jon Gordon Wolfson; Joseph A. Wolf; Harold I. Levine; Thomas Banchoff; Shiu-Yuen Cheng; Hsien Chung Wang; Sidney Martin Webster; Alan Weinstein; Bernard Shiffman; Jerome Spanier; John Millson; David Bleecker; Peter Li; Haruo Suzuki; …;
Occupation	mathematician; university teacher;
Employer	Princeton University (1943–1945); University of California, Berkeley (1960–1979); University of Chicago (1949–1960); University of Amsterdam (Q62512559, visiting scholar, 1967–1967); Tsinghua University (1937–1938); National Southwestern Associated University (1938–1943); Academia Sinica (1946–1948);
Member of	Royal Society; French Academy of Sciences; American Philosophical Society; National Academy of Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Academia Sinica; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Lincean Academy; Russian Academy of Sciences; The World Academy of Sciences;
Position held	director (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, 1982–1984); director (Chern Institute of Mathematics, 1985–1992);
Field of work	differential geometry;
Child	May Chu;
Spouse	Zheng Shining;
Relative	Chu Ching-wu (son-in-law);
Notable work	Chern class; Chern–Weil theory; Chern–Simons theory; Chern–Simons form; Chern–Weil homomorphism; Generalized Gauss-Bonnet theorem;
Award received	Guggenheim Fellowship (1954); National Medal of Science (1975); Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit (1996); Lobachevsky Prize (2002); Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1983); The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences (2004); Chauvenet Prize (1970); Humboldt Prize (1982); honorary doctor of the Nankai University (1985); honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1969); Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1985); honorary doctor of ETH Zürich (1982); Leroy P. Steele Prize (1983); Shaw Prize (2004); Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences;
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	Q328131; ISNI: 0000000109038564; VIAF ID: 56658853; GND ID: 118520350; Library of Congress authority ID: n79056361; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12210182f; IdRef ID: 030747724; CALIS ID: n2004292988; NDL Authority ID: 01011098; Libraries Australia ID: 35027771; NL CR AUT ID: jn20010601930; SELIBR ID: 181482; National Library of Israel ID (old): 001682886; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 072884746; NORAF ID: 90082588; NUKAT ID: n94302646; Libris-URI: vs68831d5fr58xd; J9U ID: 987007513255305171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA0088942X; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 6424
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