Title:

Professor of Mathematics

Affiliation:

University of California, San Diego

Department of Mathematics

La Jolla,California 92093 USA

Gender:

Male

Award Discipline:

Mathematics and Computer Science

Award Year:

1987

Citation:

"For his proof of the Poincare Conjecture in dimension four: a toplogical four-manifold is homeomorphic to S4[4th power] it it is homotopy equivalent to S4 [4th power], one of the greatest achievemnets in mathematics in this century."

Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on June 25, 1987.