Shiing-Shen Chern - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

Chern received numerous honors and awards in his life, including:

• 1970, Chauvenet Prize, of the Mathematical Association of America;
• 1975, National Medal of Science
• 1982, Humboldt Prize, Germany;
• 1983, Leroy P. Steele Prize, of the American Mathematical Society;
• 1984, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Israel;
• 2002, Lobachevsky Medal;
• 2004 May, Shaw Prize in mathematical sciences, Hong Kong;
• 1948, Academician, Academia Sinica;
• 1950, Honorary Member, Indian Mathematical Society;
• 1961, Member, United States National Academy of Sciences;
• 1963, Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
• 1971, Corresponding Member, Brazilian Academy of Sciences;
• 1983, Associate Founding Fellow, TWAS;
• 1985, Foreign Fellow, Royal Society of London, UK;
• 1986, Honorary Fellow, London Mathematical Society, UK;
• 1986, Corresponding Member, Academia Peloritana, Messina, Sicily;
• 1987, Honorary Life Member, New York Academy of Sciences;
• 1989, Foreign Member, Accademia dei Lincei, Italy;
• 1989, Foreign Member, Académie des sciences, France;
• 1989, Member, American Philosophical Society;
• 1994, Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chern was given a number of honorary degrees, including from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (LL.D. 1969), University of Chicago (D.Sc. 1969), ETH Zurich (Dr.Math. 1982), SUNY Stony Brook (D.Sc. 1985), TU Berlin (Dr.Math. 1986), his alma mater Hamburg (D.Sc. 1971) and Nankai (honorary doctorate, 1985), etc.

Chern was also granted numerous honorary professorships, including at Peking University (Beijing, 1978), his alma mater Nankai (Tianjin, 1978), Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Systems Science (Beijing, 1980), Jinan University (Guangzhou, 1980), Chinese Academy of Sciences Graduate School (1984), Nanjing University (Nanjing, 1985), East China Normal University (Shanghai, 1985), USTC (Hefei, 1985), Beijing Normal University (1985), Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, 1985), Hangzhou University (1986, the university was merged into Zhejiang University in 1998), Fudan University (Shanghai, 1986), Shanghai University of Technology (1986, the university was merged to establish Shanghai University in 1994), Tianjin University (1987), Tohoku University (Sendai, Japan, 1987), etc.