Shiing-Shen Chern

Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-born American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology and has been called the father of modern differential geometry. He studied projective differential geometry under Sun Guangyuan and later worked at the Institute for Advanced Study, spent about a decade at the University of Chicago, and then moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he cofounded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in 1982. His awards included the Wolf Prize, and he was a member of the American Philosophical Society and a foreign member of the Académie des sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.