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He was awarded a National Medal of Science in 1975, a Wolf Prize in mathematics in 1984, and a Shaw Prize in mathematical sciences in 2004. He founded the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) in University of California, Berkeley in 1981 and acted as the director until 1984. In 1985 he founded the Nankai Insititute of Mathematics in Tianjin. The asteroid 29552 Chern is named after him. |
