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Shing-Tung Yau

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American mathematician from Hong Kong

United StatesAcademicsBorn 1949 · age 77
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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.

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2023Shaw Prize
2013Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2010Wolf Prize in Mathematics
2009Great Immigrants Award
2003honorary doctor of the Zhejiang University
1997National Medal of Science
1994Crafoord Prize in Mathematics
1991Humboldt Prize
1984MacArthur Fellows Program
1982Fields medal
1982Guggenheim Fellowship
1981Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
1981John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science
Humboldt Research Fellowship
honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Crafoord Prize

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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.

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Born 1949 · age 77
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