Seventeenth Annotation

12/16/08

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

This is a autobiography wrote by Shiing Shen Chern himself, and it's a primary source. This autobiography tell us how his life goes.

And have been honored by many national academies in the world, as members or foreign members. Among them are the following:


- Academia Sinica 1948
- National Academy of Sciences US 1961
- American Philosophical Society 1989
- Royal Society of London 1985
- Academie des Sciences Paris 1989
- Russian Academy of Sciences 2001
- Chinese Academy of Sciences 1994
- Academia Nazionale dei Lincei 1988
- Third World Academy of Sciences 1983
- Brazilian Academy of Sciences 1971