Person Chern; Shiing-Shen (1911 - 2004) Chern Shiing-Shen 1911 - 2004 American Male Jia Xin, China 26/10/1911 19111026 03/12/2004 20041203

Mathematician Education: Fulun Middle School, Tsientsin; Nankai University; Tsinghua University, taught by Dan Sun Career: Studied with Wilhelm Blaschke in Hamburg (1934-1946); worked with Elie Cartan in Paris for one year; returned to China (1937), his university had moved to Kunming; Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1943); returned to China after WW2 to set up Institute of Mathematics as part of Academia Sinica in Nanjing; returned to USA (1948), moved to Chicago (1949), moved to Berkeley (1960), retired (1979); founder of national Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, director (1981-1984); set up Nankai Institute for Mathematics in China (1985); awarded US National Medal of Science (1975); Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1983); Chern Visiting Professors, University of California, Berkeley. Foreign Member 27/06/1985 73 Sources: Obituary in The Times (10 December 2004) Biographical Memoir, Vol 60 December 2014 pp 75 - 86 International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 26 Oct 1911 - NA3936 21/11/2001 Andyg pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes 5dbc0def-faee-4faf-b1a8-97ef0ad39491