Shiing-Shen Chern

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Shiing-Shen_Chern

GPTKB entity

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:mathematician
gptkbp:almaMater	gptkb:Tsinghua_University gptkb:University_of_Hamburg
gptkbp:awardReceived	gptkb:Leroy_P._Steele_Prize gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science gptkb:Nobel_Prize_in_Physics gptkb:Oswald_Veblen_Prize_in_Geometry gptkb:mathematics
gptkbp:birthDate	1911-10-26
gptkbp:birthPlace	gptkb:Jiaxing,_Zhejiang,_China
gptkbp:children	gptkb:Paul_Chern gptkb:May_Chu
gptkbp:deathDate	2004-12-03
gptkbp:deathPlace	gptkb:Tianjin,_China
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor	gptkb:Wilhelm_Blaschke gptkb:Herbert_Busemann
gptkbp:employer	gptkb:Institute_for_Advanced_Study gptkb:Nankai_University gptkb:Princeton_University gptkb:Tsinghua_University gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
gptkbp:field	gptkb:mathematics differential geometry
gptkbp:founded	gptkb:Mathematical_Sciences_Research_Institute gptkb:Nankai_Institute_of_Mathematics
gptkbp:honorificPrefix	gptkb:professor
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Shiing-Shen Chern
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:C._N._Yang gptkb:Isadore_Singer gptkb:John_Milnor gptkb:Raoul_Bott gptkb:Shing-Tung_Yau gptkb:James_Simons gptkb:Blaine_Lawson gptkb:S._T._Yau
gptkbp:knownFor	gptkb:Chern–Simons_theory gptkb:Chern_class gptkb:Chern's_conjecture gptkb:Chern–Gauss–Bonnet_theorem gptkb:Chern–Weil_theory gptkb:Chern_connection gptkb:Chern_number
gptkbp:language	gptkb:Chinese English
gptkbp:memberOf	gptkb:Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences gptkb:French_Academy_of_Sciences gptkb:Royal_Society gptkb:United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences gptkb:Academia_Sinica
gptkbp:nationality	gptkb:American gptkb:Chinese
gptkbp:spouse	gptkb:Shih-Ning_Cheng
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Shing-Tung_Yau
gptkbp:bfsLayer	4