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The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details

SHIING-SHEN CHERN

Title: Professor of Mathematics
Affiliation:   University of California, Berkeley
    Berkeley, CaliforniaUSA
Gender:   Male
Year Deceased:   2004
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Award Discipline:   Mathematics and Computer Science
Award Year:   1975
Citation:   "For developing and extending techniques that led to profound discoveries in geometry and topology."
    Presented by President Ford at a White House Ceremony on October 18, 1976.

 

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