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Shing-Tung Yau
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Shing-Tung Yau

Scientist · born April 4, 1949

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Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese American mathematician and educator. He is the first ethnic Chinese Fields medalist and director of the Yau Mathematical Sciences Center at Tsinghua University and professor emeritus at Harvard University.

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  1. ~33Received the Fields medal1982
  2. ~33Named Guggenheim Fellowship1982
  3. ~35Named MacArthur Fellows Program1984
  4. ~48Received the National Medal of Science1997
  5. ~61Received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics2010
  6. ~74Received the Shaw Prize2023

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