| gptkbp:instanceOf | gptkb:mathematician 
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                                | gptkbp:almaMater | gptkb:Chinese_University_of_Hong_Kong gptkb:University_of_California,_Berkeley
 
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                                | gptkbp:award | gptkb:MacArthur_Fellowship gptkb:National_Medal_of_Science
 gptkb:Oswald_Veblen_Prize_in_Geometry
 gptkb:mathematics
 
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                                | gptkbp:birthDate | 1949-04-04 
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                                | gptkbp:birthPlace | Shantou, Guangdong, China 
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                                | gptkbp:children | gptkb:Yuan_Yau gptkb:Horng-Tzer_Yau
 Stephen Yau
 
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                                | gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor | gptkb:Shiing-Shen_Chern 
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                                | gptkbp:field | gptkb:mathematics differential geometry
 geometric analysis
 
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                                | gptkbp:fullName | gptkb:Shing-Tung_Yau 
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                                | gptkbp:knownFor | gptkb:Kähler_manifold gptkb:positive_mass_theorem
 gptkb:Ricci_flow
 work in minimal surfaces
 proof of the Calabi conjecture
 
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                                | gptkbp:memberOf | gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences gptkb:Chinese_Academy_of_Sciences
 gptkb:United_States_National_Academy_of_Sciences
 gptkb:Academia_Sinica
 
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                                | gptkbp:nationality | gptkb:Chinese-American 
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                                | gptkbp:notableStudent | gptkb:Gang_Tian gptkb:Huai-Dong_Cao
 gptkb:Duong_H._Phong
 gptkb:Xiaodong_Wang
 Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu
 Mu-Tao Wang
 Shengli Kong
 Xiaochun Rong
 Yuguang Shi
 Zhongmin Shen
 
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                                | gptkbp:spouse | gptkb:Yu-Yun_Yeung 
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                                | gptkbp:workInstitution | gptkb:Harvard_University gptkb:Princeton_University
 gptkb:Stanford_University
 gptkb:Stony_Brook_University
 Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong
 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsParent | gptkb:quintic_threefold 
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                                | gptkbp:bfsLayer | 8 
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                                | https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label | Tian Yau 
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