Eighteenth Annotation

12/16/08

http://www.shawprize.org/en/laureates/2004/mathematical/Chern/citation.html

This is a primary source, which brieftly describe his success in his life.

Shiing-Shen Chern was born in 1911 in China. He graduated from Nankai University in 1930 and the graduate school of Tsinghua University in 1934. He then furthered studies at the University of Hamburg. He has been professor at the Southwest Associated University, Kunming, China, the University of Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley. He founded the mathematics research institute at Nankai and is the honorary director since 1992.