| Authorised form of name | Chern; Shiing-Shen (1911 - 2004) |
| Dates | 1911 - 2004 |
| Nationality | American |
| Place of birth | Jia Xin, China |
| Date of birth | 26/10/1911 |
| Date of death | 03/12/2004 |
| Occupation | Mathematician |
| Activity | 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.
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| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 27/06/1985 |
| Age at election | 73 |
| Source | Sources:
Obituary in The Times (10 December 2004)
Biographical Memoir, Vol 60 December 2014 pp 75 - 86 |
| Code | NA3936 |
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