# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/shing-tung-yau
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:33:32.147Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/shing-tung-yau"
name: "Shing-Tung Yau"
slug: "shing-tung-yau"
description: "Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese American mathematician and educator. He is the First ethnic Chinese Fields medalist and director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University and professor emeritus at Harvard University. Until 2022, Yau was the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, at which point he moved to Tsinghua."
tagline: "American mathematician from Hong Kong"
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birthDate: "1949-04-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump