Was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society, listed with her affiliation as distinguished visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study
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Karen Uhlenbeck
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS 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. Since 2019 she has been a distinguished visiting professor in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, on an appointme…
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science · American mathematician (born 1942) · university teacher · mathematician · also Karen Uhlenbeck, Karen K. Uhlenbeck, Uhlenbeck
Born 24 August 1942 · Q38636
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2020· 3 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (2020).
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Awarded Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2020).
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The American Mathematical Society awarded her the [[Leroy P
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2019· 1 entry
Awarded Abel Prize in Oslo (2019).
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from Princeton University (2012).
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2007· 3 entries
Awarded Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (2007).
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Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (2007).
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"for her foundational contributions in analytic aspects of mathematical gauge theory", based on her 1982 papers "Removable singularities in Yang–Mills fields"[RSY] and "Connections with bounds on curvature"
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2001· 3 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the Ohio State University (2001).
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Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (2001).
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An honorary member of the London Mathematical Society in 2008, and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012
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2000· 2 entries
Won National Medal of Science (2000).
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Awarded honorary doctorate presented by University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2000).
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1991· 1 entry
Uhlenbeck co-founded, with Herbert Clemens and Dan Freed, the Park City Mathematics Institute (PCMI) with the mission to "provide an immersive educational and professional development opportunity for several parallel com
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1990· 1 entry
Was a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, as only the second woman (after Emmy Noether) to give such a lecture
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1988· 3 entries
Awarded Noether Lecture (1988).
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Career landmark: professor emeritus (1988).
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By which time she had married mathematician Robert F
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1985· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1985).
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1983).
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And a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985
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1976· 1 entry
As well as separating from her first husband Olke Uhlenbeck in the same year
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1968· 1 entry
Studied at Brandeis University, master's degree (1968).
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1965· 1 entry
Studied at Courant Institute School of Mathematics, Computing, and Data Science (1965).
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1964· 1 entry
Studied at University of Michigan, Bachelor of Arts (1964).
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1942· 1 entry
Born 1942-08-24.
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