12/16/08
http://www.onpedia.com/encyclopedia/Shiing-shen-Chern
This is a website, which had a detailed information about Chern's life.
He was born in Kashing, Chekiang Province in China (today known as Jiaxing in Zhejiang province). He moved to Tientsin (today known as Tianjin) in 1922 to be with his father, and from 1926 he was a student at Nankai University in that city, graduating in mathematics in 1930. He was a master student under Dan SUN at Tsing Hua University from 1931 to 1934, working on projective differential geometry. He died at Nankai University, Tianjin at the age of 93. The asteroid 29552 Chern is named after him.
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