Karen Uhlenbeck
American mathematician (born 1942)
Biography
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS (born August 24, 1942) is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair. She is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University.
Uhlenbeck was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007. She won the 2019 Abel Prize for "her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory, and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics." She is the first, and so far only, woman to win the prize since its inception in 2003. She donated half of the prize money to organizations which promote more engagement of women and other minorities in research mathematics.
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Career highlights
Career & roles
- professor emeritus
Employers / organisations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- University of Chicago
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of California, Berkeley
- University of Illinois Chicago
Family
- Spouse(s)
- Olke C. Uhlenbeck
Awards & honours (14)
- MacArthur Fellows Program
- National Medal of Science
- Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Abel Prize
- Guggenheim Fellowship
- Noether Lecture
- honorary doctor of Harvard University
- honorary doctorate from Princeton University
- honorary doctorate
- honorary doctor of the Ohio State University
- Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research
- Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics
- Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement
Quick answers about Karen Uhlenbeck
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- Karen Uhlenbeck is 84 years old (born August 24, 1942).
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- Karen Uhlenbeck was born on August 24, 1942.
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- Karen Uhlenbeck was born in Cleveland.
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- Karen Uhlenbeck's zodiac sign is Virgo.
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- Karen Uhlenbeck is a citizen of United States.
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- According to Wikidata, Karen Uhlenbeck's spouse is or was Olke C. Uhlenbeck.
