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Kunihiko Kodaira
Kunihiko Kodaira was a Japanese mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry and the theory of complex manifolds, and as the founder of the Japanese school of algebraic geometers. He was awarded a Fields Medal in 1954, being the first Japanese national to receive this honour.
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Born 16 March 1915 · Died 26 July 1997 · Q333918
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1997· 1 entry
Died 1997-07-26.
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1984).
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1975· 1 entry
Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences in 1974 and honorary member of the London Mathematical Society in 1979
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1961· 1 entry
And briefly served as chair at the Johns Hopkins University and Stanford University
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Culture (1957).
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Awarded Japan Academy Prize (1957).
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1954· 2 entries
Won Fields medal (1954).
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Being the first Japanese national to receive this honour
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1949· 2 entries
Travelled to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey at the invitation of Hermann Weyl
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With a thesis entitled Harmonic fields in Riemannian manifolds
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1941· 1 entry
Studied at University of Tokyo (1938–1941).
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1938· 2 entries
With a degree in mathematics and also graduated from the physics department at the University of Tokyo in 1941
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Studied at University of Tokyo (1935–1938).
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1915· 1 entry
Born 1915-03-16.
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