Shing-Tung Yau

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yau (丘) and Shing (成) is a generation name.

Shing-Tung Yau

Born	(1949-04-04) April 4, 1949 Shantou, Guangdong Province, China
Residence	U.S.
Nationality	British Hong Kong (until 1990) American (since 1990)
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Harvard University Stanford University Stony Brook University Institute for Advanced Study
Alma mater	Chinese University of Hong Kong (B.A. 1969) University of California, Berkeley (Ph. D 1971)
Doctoral advisor	Shiing-Shen Chern
Doctoral students	Richard Schoen (Stanford, 1977) Jun Li (Stanford, 1989) Huai-Dong Cao (Princeton, 1986) Gang Tian (Harvard, 1988) Lizhen Ji (Northeastern, 1991) Kefeng Liu (Harvard, 1993) Mu-Tao Wang (Harvard, 1998) Chiu-Chu Melissa Liu (Harvard, 2002) Mark Stern (Princeton, 1984)
Notable awards	John J. Carty Award (1981) Veblen Prize (1981) Fields Medal (1982) Crafoord Prize (1994) National Medal of Science (1997) Wolf Prize (2010)

Shing-Tung Yau (Chinese: 丘成桐; pinyin: Qiū Chéngtóng; Cantonese Yale: Yāu Sìngtùng; born April 4, 1949) is a Hong Kong and naturalised American mathematician. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982. He is currently the William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics at Harvard.^[1]

Yau's work is mainly in differential geometry, especially in geometric analysis. His contributions have influenced both physics and mathematics, and he has been active at the interface between geometry and theoretical physics. His proof of the positive energy theorem in general relativity demonstrated—sixty years after its discovery—that Einstein's theory is consistent and stable. His proof of the Calabi conjecture allowed physicists to show, using Calabi–Yau compactification, that string theory is a viable candidate for a unified theory of nature. Calabi–Yau manifolds are part of the standard toolkit for string theorists today.

Biography

Yau was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China with Hakka ancestry in Jiaoling, Guangdong in a family of eight children. When he was only a few months old, his family emigrated to Hong Kong, where they lived in Yuen Long and Shatin.Yau's father, Chiou Chenying, was a philosophy professor.

After graduating from Pui Ching Middle School, he studied mathematics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1966 to 1969. Yau left for the University of California, Berkeley in the fall of 1969, where he received his Ph.D. in mathematics two years later, under the supervision of Shiing-Shen Chern. He spent a year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton before joining Stony Brook University in 1972 as an assistant professor. In 1974, he became an associate professor at Stanford University.^[2] Yau has held American citizenship since 1990.^[3]^[4]

Since 1987, he has been at Harvard University.^[5] He is also involved in the activities of mathematics research institutes in Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland. In addition to his research interests, he is active in educational reform initiatives for primary and secondary-school mathematics in China, and his criticisms of the Chinese mainland education system, corruption in the academic world in Chinese mainland, and the quality of mathematical research and education, have been widely publicized.

Contributions to mathematics

Duong Hong Phong of Columbia University has commented on the influence of Yau's research in geometric analysis.^[6]

Work on conjectures

Calabi conjecture

For more details on this topic, see Calabi conjecture.

Yau's solution of the Calabi conjecture, concerning the existence of an Einstein–Kähler metric, has far-reaching consequences. The existence of such a canonical unique metric allows one to give explicit representatives of characteristic classes. Calabi–Yau manifolds are now fundamental in string theory, where the Calabi conjecture provides an essential piece in the model.

In algebraic geometry, the Calabi conjecture implies the Miyaoka–Yau inequality on Chern numbers of surfaces, a characterization of the complex projective plane and quotients of the two-dimensional complex unit ball, an important class of Shimura varieties.

Yau also made a contribution in the case that the first Chern number c₁ > 0, and conjectured its relation to the stability in the sense of geometric invariant theory in algebraic geometry. This has motivated the work of Simon Donaldson on scalar curvature and stability. Another important result of Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau is that a holomorphic vector bundle is stable (in the sense of David Mumford) if and only if there exists an Hermitian–Yang–Mills metric on it. This has many consequences in algebraic geometry, such as the characterization of certain symmetric spaces, Chern number inequalities for stable bundles, and the restriction of the fundamental groups of a Kähler manifold.

Positive mass conjecture and existence of black holes

For more details on this topic, see Positive energy theorem.

Yau pioneered the method of using minimal surfaces to study geometry and topology. By analyzing how minimal surfaces behave in space-time, Yau and Richard Schoen proved the long-standing conjecture that the total mass in general relativity is positive.

This theorem implies that flat space-time is stable, a fundamental issue for the theory of general relativity. Briefly, the positive mass conjecture says that if a three-dimensional manifold has positive scalar curvature and is asymptotically flat, then a constant that appears in the asymptotic expansion of the metric is positive. A continuation of the above work leads to another result in relativity proved by Yau, an existence theorem for black holes. Yau and Schoen continued their work on manifolds with positive scalar curvature, which led to Schoen's final solution of the Yamabe problem.

Smith conjecture

For more details on this topic, see Smith conjecture.

Yau and William H. Meeks resolved the well-known question of whether the Douglas solution of a minimal disk for an external Jordan curve, the Plateau problem, in three space, is always embedded if the boundary curve is a subset of a convex boundary. They then went on to prove that these embedded minimal surfaces are equivariant for finite group actions. Combining this work with a result by William Thurston, Cameron Gordon assembled a proof of the Smith conjecture: for any cyclic group acting on a sphere, the set of fixed points is not a knotted curve.

Hermitian Yang–Mills connection and stable vector bundles

Yau and Karen Uhlenbeck proved the existence and uniqueness of Hermitian–Einstein metrics (or equivalently Hermitian Yang–Mills connections) for stable bundles on any compact Kähler manifold, extending an earlier result of Donaldson for projective algebraic surfaces, and M. S. Narasimhan and C. S. Seshadri for algebraic curves. Both the results and methods of this paper have been influential in parts of both algebraic geometry and string theory. This result is now usually called the Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau Theorem.

Frankel conjecture

Yau and Yum-Tong Siu proved the 1981 Frankel conjecture in complex geometry, stating that any compact positively curved Kähler manifold is biholomorphic to complex projective space. An independent proof was given by Shigefumi Mori, using methods of algebraic geometry in positive characteristic.

Mirror conjecture

With Bong Lian and Kefeng Liu, Yau proved the mirror formulas conjectured by string theorists. These formulas give the explicit numbers of rational curves of all degrees in a large class of Calabi–Yau manifolds, in terms of the Picard–Fuchs equations of the corresponding mirror manifolds. Givental had earlier sketched a proof of the mirror formulas in a paper on "Equivariant Gromov-Witten invariants" (Internat. Math. Res. Notices 1996), but his argument contained substantial gaps and wrong arguments. Some of these were fixed and new key ideas were added to give a complete proof in the paper by Lian-Liu-Yau.^[7]

New methods and concepts

Gradient estimates and Harnack inequalities

Yau developed the method of gradient estimates for Harnack's inequalities. This method has been used and refined by Yau and other mathematicians to attack, for example, bounds on the heat kernel. Early in 1981, Yau suggested to Richard S. Hamilton that he use the Ricci flow to realize naturally the canonical decomposition of a three-dimensional manifold into pieces, each of which has a geometric structure, in the Thurston program. Hamilton amplified their results, leading to the Li–Yau–Hamilton inequality for the Ricci flow equations.

Gradient estimates were also used in Yau's joint work with Shiu-Yuen Cheng to give a complete proof of the higher-dimensional Hermann Minkowski problem and the Dirichlet problem for the real Monge–Ampère equation, and other results on the Kähler–Einstein metric of bounded pseudoconvex domains.

Uniformization of complex manifolds

When Yau was a graduate student, he started to generalize the uniformization theorem of Riemann surfaces to higher-dimensional complex Kähler manifolds. For a compact manifold with positive bisectional curvature, the Frankel conjecture - proved by Siu and Yau, and independently by Mori - shows that it is complex projective space. Yau proposed a series of conjectures when the manifold is non-compact, and made contributions towards their solutions. For example, when the bisectional curvature is positive, it must be biholomorphic to Cⁿ.

Harmonic maps and rigidity

When Yau was working on his thesis about manifolds with non-positive curvature and their fundamental groups, he realized that it is possible to use harmonic maps to give alternative proofs of some results there. He was aware of the Mostow rigidity theorem for locally symmetric spaces, which he used to prove the uniqueness of complex structure of quotients of complex balls. He proposed that harmonic maps be used to prove rigidity of the complex structure for Kähler manifolds with strongly negative curvature, a program that was successfully carried out by Yum-Tong Siu. This method, the Siu-Yau method, has been extended to prove strong and super-rigidities of many locally symmetric spaces.

Minimal submanifolds

Yau has used minimal submanifolds in his solutions of the Positive Mass Conjecture, the Smith conjecture, and the Frankel conjecture, among others. Many other mathematicians have since applied minimal surfaces to other problems. Mikhail Gromov's introduction of pseudo-holomorphic curves in symplectic geometry has also had an important impact on this field.

Open problems

Yau has compiled an influential set of open problems in geometry.

Harmonic functions with controlled growth

One of Yau’s problems is about bounded harmonic functions, and harmonic functions on noncompact manifolds of polynomial growth. After proving non-existence of bounded harmonic functions on manifolds with positive curvatures, he proposed the Dirichlet problem at infinity for bounded harmonic functions on negatively curved manifolds, and then proceeded to harmonic functions of polynomial growth. Dennis Sullivan tells a story about Yau's geometric intuition, and how it led him to reject an analytical proof of Sullivan's. Michael Anderson independently found the same result about bounded harmonic function on simply connected negatively curved manifolds using a geometric convexity construction.^[6]

Rank rigidity of nonpositively curved manifolds

Again motivated by Mostow's strong rigidity theorem, Yau called for a notion of rank for general manifolds extending the one for locally symmetric spaces, and asked for rigidity properties for higher rank metrics. Advances in this direction have been made by Ballmann, Brin and Eberlein in their work on non-positive curved manifolds, Gromov's and Eberlein's metric rigidity theorems for higher rank locally symmetric spaces and the classification of closed higher rank manifolds of non-positive curvature by Ballmann and Burns-Spatzier. This leaves rank 1 manifolds of non-positive curvature as the focus of research. They behave more like manifolds of negative curvature, but remain poorly understood in many regards.

Kähler–Einstein metrics and stability of manifolds

It is known that if a complex manifold has a Kähler–Einstein metric, then its tangent bundle is stable. Yau realized early in 1980s that the existence of special metrics on Kähler manifolds is equivalent to the stability of the manifolds. Various people including Simon Donaldson have made progress to understand such a relation.

Mirror symmetry

He has collaborated with string theorists including Strominger, Vafa and Witten, and as post-doctorals from theoretical physics with B. Greene, E. Zaslow and A. Klemm . The Strominger–Yau–Zaslow program is to construct explicitly mirror manifolds. David Gieseker wrote of the seminal role of the Calabi conjecture in relating string theory with algebraic geometry, in particular for the developments of the SYZ program, mirror conjecture and Yau–Zaslow conjecture.^[6]

Initiatives in mainland China and Taiwan

Yau was born in China but grew up in Hong Kong. After the door of China was opened to the West in the late 1970s, Yau revisited China in 1979 on the invitation of Hua Luogeng.

To help develop Chinese mathematics, Yau started by educating students from China. He then began establishing mathematics research institutes and centers, organizing conferences at all levels, initiating out-reach programs, and raising private funds for these purposes. John Coates has commented on Yau's success as a fundraiser.^[6] The first of Yau's initiatives is The Institute of Mathematical Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993. The goal is to “organize activities related to a broad variety of fields including both pure and Applied mathematics, scientific computation, image processing, mathematical physics and statistics. The emphasis is on interaction and linkages with the physical sciences, engineering, industry and commerce.”

Yau's second major initiative is the Morningside Center of Mathematics in Beijing, established in 1996. Part of the money for the building and regular operations was raised by Yau from the Morningside Foundation in Hong Kong. Yau also proposed organizing the International Congress of Chinese Mathematicians, which is now held every three years. The first congress was held at the Morningside Center from December 12 to 18, 1998.

His third initiative is the Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University, established in 2002. Yau is the director of all three mathematics institutes and visits them on a regular basis.

Yau went to Taiwan to attend a conference in 1985. In 1990, he was invited by Dr. C.-S. Liu, then the President of National Tsinghua University, to visit the university for a year. A few years later, he convinced Liu, then-chairman of National Science Council, to create the National Center of Theoretical Sciences (NCTS), which was established at Hsinchu in 1998. He was the chairman of the Advisory Board of the NCTS until 2005.

Outreach

His classmate at college Y.-C.Siu speaks of Yau as an ambassador of mathematics.^[6] In Hong Kong, with the support of Ronnie Chan, Yau set up the Hang Lung Award for high school students. He has also organized and participated in meetings for high school and college students, such as the panel discussions Why Math? Ask Masters! in Hangzhou, July 2004, and The Wonder of Mathematics in Hong Kong, December 2004. Yau organized the JDG conference surveying developments in geometry and related fields, in addition to the annual Current development of mathematics conference. Yau also co-initiated a series of books on popular mathematics, "Mathematics and Mathematical People".

Honors and awards

Yau has received numerous honors and awards,^[8] including:

Prizes and awards

1979, California Scientist of the Year.
1981, Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.
1981, John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science, United States National Academy of Sciences.^[9]
1982, Fields Medal, for "his contributions to partial differential equations, to the Calabi conjecture in algebraic geometry, to the positive mass conjecture of general relativity theory, and to real and complex Monge–Ampère equations."
1984, Science Digest, America’s 100 Brightest Scientists under 40.
1991, Humboldt Research Award, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
1994, Crafoord Prize.^[10]
1997, United States National Medal of Science.
2003, China International Scientific and Technological Cooperation Award, for “his outstanding contribution to PRC in aspects of making progress in sciences and technology, training researchers.”
2010, Wolf Prize in Mathematics, for "his work in geometric analysis and mathematical physics".^[11]

Research fellowships

1975–1976, Sloan Fellow.
1982, Guggenheim Fellowship.
1984–1985, MacArthur Fellow.

Honorary professorships

Honorary Professor, Hunan Normal University (appointed on Dec 22, 2009).
Honorary Professor, Northwest University (appointed on Jul 15, 2009).^[12]
Honorary Professor, North University of China (appointed on Jun 18, 2009).^[13]
Honorary Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (appointed on Jan 15, 2006).^[14]
Honorary Professor, University of Science and Technology of China (appointed in 1999).
Honorary Professor, Peking University (appointed in 1998).
Honorary Professor, Zhejiang University (appointed in 1998).
Honorary Professor, Nankai University (appointed in 1993).
Honorary Professor, Tsinghua University (appointed in 1987).
Honorary Professor, Hangzhou University (appointed in 1987).
Honorary Professor, Fudan University (appointed in 1983).

Honorary degrees

Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1980)
Honorary Master of Arts, Harvard University (1987)
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (1997)
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (2000)
Doctor of Science honoris causa, The University of Macau (2002)^[15]
Honorary Doctorate, Zhejiang University (Mar 25, 2003).^[16]
Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, National Central University (Jul 9, 2004)^[17]
Doctor of Science honoris causa, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Nov, 2004)^[18]
Doctor of Science, Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York (2005)
Doctor of Science, National Taiwan University (2005)
Doctor of Science, Lehigh University (2009)
Doctor of Science, National Cheng Kung University (2010)
Doctor of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada (Jun 17, 2011)
Doctor of Humane Letters, University of Illinois at Chicago (May 11, 2014)

Academic memberships

Foreign Member, Indian National Academy of Science (elected in 2008).
Foreign Member, National Academy of Lincei of Italy (elected in 2005).
Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences (elected in 2003).
Foreign member, Chinese Academy of Sciences (elected in 1995).
Member, United States National Academy of Science (elected in 1993).
Academician, Academic Sinica (elected in 1984).
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected in 1982).
Honorary Member, Academic Committee of the Institute of Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (elected in 1980).
Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Fellow, American Physical Society.
Member, Boston Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Member, New York Academy of Science.
Honorary Fellow, Shaw College of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.^[19]
Fellow, American Mathematical Society (elected in 2012)^[20]

Poincaré conjecture controversy

In August 2006, a New Yorker article, Manifold Destiny, alleged that Yau was downplaying Grigori Perelman's work on the Poincaré conjecture.^[21] Yau claimed that this article was defamatory, and threatened a lawsuit. The New Yorker stood by the story and no lawsuit was filed. In September 2006, Yau established a public relations website, which disputed points in it. Seventeen mathematicians, including two quoted in the New Yorker article, posted letters of strong support.^[22]

On October 17, 2006, a more sympathetic profile of Yau appeared in The New York Times.^[23] It devoted about half its length to the Perelman affair. The article stated that Yau had alienated some colleagues, but represented Yau's position as that Perelman's proof was not generally understood and he "had a duty to dig out the truth of the proof".^[24]

On June 8, 2005, Richard S. Hamilton had an interview in Morningside Center of Mathematics, Beijing. He highly praised Yau's leadership and the contribution of Chinese mathematicians to the Poincare conjecture.^[25]

Publications

Yau, Shing Tung (1978), "On the Ricci curvature of a compact Kähler manifold and the complex Monge-Ampère equation. I", Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics, 31 (3): 339–411, doi:10.1002/cpa.3160310304, MR 480350
2010. (with Steve Nadis) The Shape of Inner Space: String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions. Basic Books. ISBN 978-0-465-02023-2.

References

↑ "Questions and answers with Shing-Tung Yau", Physics Today, 11 April 2016.
↑ "Shing-Tung Yau (Biography)".
↑ Yau received American citizenship in 1990. The People's Republic of China does not recognize dual nationality.
↑ Overbye, Dennis (October 17, 2006). "Scientist at Work: Shing-Tung Yau The Emperor of Math". The New York Times. Retrieved September 14, 2013. He became a United States citizen in 1990.
↑ "Department of Mathematics faculty, Harvard University".
1 2 3 4 5 Page at Center of Mathematical Sciences at Zhejiang University
↑ "On the Mirror Conjecture" (PDF).
↑ "YAU, SHING-TUNG" (php). International Center for Scientific Research. Retrieved Jan 1, 2009.
↑ "John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science". United States National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved Jan 1, 2009.
↑ “...for his development of non-linear techniques in differential geometry leading to the solution of several outstanding problems.”
↑ Malkah Fleisher, Winners of Prestigious Wolf Prize Announced
↑ 丘成桐受聘西北大学名誉教授 (shtml) (in Chinese). Chinese Academy of Sciences. 2009-07-15. Retrieved Jan 1, 2009.
↑ 著名数学家丘成桐受聘我校荣誉教授 (shtml) (in Chinese). North University of China. 2009-06-18. Retrieved Jan 1, 2009.
↑ 靖咏安 (2006-01-15). 中科院外籍院士丘成桐受聘我校名誉教授 (shtml) (in Chinese). Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Retrieved Jan 1, 2009.
↑ "Honorary Degrees and Titles" (pdf) (in Chinese and English). The University of Macau. August 9, 2009. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
↑ 著名数学家丘成桐获浙江大学名誉博士学位 (php) (in Chinese). Zhejiang University News Agency. 2003-03-25. Retrieved Jan 1, 2009.
↑ 國立中央大學名譽博士頒授 (in Chinese). National Central University. Retrieved Jan 1, 2004.
↑ "Distinguished Leaders to be Awarded Honorary Doctorates" (pdf). The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). August 26, 2004. Retrieved Jan 1, 2009.
↑ "Colleges" (pdf) (in Chinese and English). Information Services Office, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. October 15, 2007. Retrieved January 1, 2009.
↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-09-01.
↑ Manifold Destiny: A legendary problem and the battle over who solved it. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
↑ Yau's website, with information on his legal action and letter to The New Yorker
↑ Dennis Overbye (17 October 2006). "Shing-tung Yau: The Emperor of Math". New York Times.
↑ Famous scientist slams academic corruption in China, China View (Xinhua), 17 August 2006. Retrieved on 2008-08-05.
↑ Hamilton's talk in Beijing.

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1960s	1963: Norbert Wiener 1964: Solomon Lefschetz H. Marston Morse 1965: Oscar Zariski 1966: John Milnor 1967: Paul Cohen 1968: Jerzy Neyman 1969: William Feller

1970s	1970: Richard Brauer 1973: John Tukey 1974: Kurt Gödel 1975: John W. Backus Shiing-Shen Chern George Dantzig 1976: Kurt Otto Friedrichs Hassler Whitney 1979: Joseph L. Doob Donald E. Knuth

1980s	1982: Marshall Harvey Stone 1983: Herman Goldstine Isadore Singer 1986: Peter Lax Antoni Zygmund 1987: Raoul Bott Michael Freedman 1988: Ralph E. Gomory Joseph B. Keller 1989: Samuel Karlin Saunders Mac Lane Donald C. Spencer

1990s	1990: George F. Carrier Stephen Cole Kleene John McCarthy 1991: Alberto Calderón 1992: Allen Newell 1993: Martin David Kruskal 1994: John Cocke 1995: Louis Nirenberg 1996: Richard Karp Stephen Smale 1997: Shing-Tung Yau 1998: Cathleen Synge Morawetz 1999: Felix Browder Ronald R. Coifman

2000s	2000: John Griggs Thompson Karen K. Uhlenbeck 2001: Calyampudi R. Rao Elias M. Stein 2002: James G. Glimm 2003: Carl R. de Boor 2004: Dennis P. Sullivan 2005: Bradley Efron 2006: Hyman Bass 2007: Leonard Kleinrock Andrew J. Viterbi 2009: David B. Mumford

2010s	2010: Richard A. Tapia S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan 2011: Solomon W. Golomb Barry Mazur 2014: Alexandre Chorin David Blackwell 2015: Michael Artin

Physical sciences

1960s	1963: Luis W. Alvarez 1964: Julian Schwinger Harold Clayton Urey Robert Burns Woodward 1965: John Bardeen Peter Debye Leon M. Lederman William Rubey 1966: Jacob Bjerknes Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Henry Eyring John H. Van Vleck Vladimir K. Zworykin 1967: Jesse Beams Francis Birch Gregory Breit Louis Hammett George Kistiakowsky 1968: Paul Bartlett Herbert Friedman Lars Onsager Eugene Wigner 1969: Herbert C. Brown Wolfgang Panofsky

1970s	1970: Robert H. Dicke Allan R. Sandage John C. Slater John A. Wheeler Saul Winstein 1973: Carl Djerassi Maurice Ewing Arie Jan Haagen-Smit Vladimir Haensel Frederick Seitz Robert Rathbun Wilson 1974: Nicolaas Bloembergen Paul Flory William Alfred Fowler Linus Carl Pauling Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer 1975: Hans A. Bethe Joseph O. Hirschfelder Lewis Sarett Edgar Bright Wilson Chien-Shiung Wu 1976: Samuel Goudsmit Herbert S. Gutowsky Frederick Rossini Verner Suomi Henry Taube George Uhlenbeck 1979: Richard P. Feynman Herman Mark Edward M. Purcell John Sinfelt Lyman Spitzer Victor F. Weisskopf

1980s	1982: Philip W. Anderson Yoichiro Nambu Edward Teller Charles H. Townes 1983: E. Margaret Burbidge Maurice Goldhaber Helmut Landsberg Walter Munk Frederick Reines Bruno B. Rossi J. Robert Schrieffer 1986: Solomon J. Buchsbaum H. Richard Crane Herman Feshbach Robert Hofstadter Chen-Ning Yang 1987: Philip Abelson Walter Elsasser Paul C. Lauterbur George Pake James A. Van Allen 1988: D. Allan Bromley Paul Ching-Wu Chu Walter Kohn Norman F. Ramsey Jack Steinberger 1989: Arnold O. Beckman Eugene Parker Robert Sharp Henry Stommel

1990s	1990: Allan M. Cormack Edwin M. McMillan Robert Pound Roger Revelle 1991: Arthur L. Schawlow Ed Stone Steven Weinberg 1992: Eugene M. Shoemaker 1993: Val Fitch Vera Rubin 1994: Albert Overhauser Frank Press 1995: Hans Dehmelt Peter Goldreich 1996: Wallace S. Broecker 1997: Marshall Rosenbluth Martin Schwarzschild George Wetherill 1998: Don L. Anderson John N. Bahcall 1999: James Cronin Leo Kadanoff

2000s	2000: Willis E. Lamb Jeremiah P. Ostriker Gilbert F. White 2001: Marvin L. Cohen Raymond Davis Jr. Charles Keeling 2002: Richard Garwin W. Jason Morgan Edward Witten 2003: G. Brent Dalrymple Riccardo Giacconi 2004: Robert N. Clayton 2005: Ralph A. Alpher Lonnie Thompson 2006: Daniel Kleppner 2007: Fay Ajzenberg-Selove Charles P. Slichter 2008: Berni Alder James E. Gunn 2009: Yakir Aharonov Esther M. Conwell Warren M. Washington

2010s	2011: Sidney Drell Sandra Faber Sylvester James Gates 2014: Burton Richter Sean C. Solomon 2015: Shirley Ann Jackson

Recipients of the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry

1964 Christos Papakyriakopoulos
1964 Raoul Bott
1966 Stephen Smale
1966 Morton Brown and Barry Mazur
1971 Robion Kirby
1971 Dennis Sullivan
1976 William Thurston
1976 James Harris Simons
1981 Mikhail Gromov
1981 Shing-Tung Yau
1986 Michael Freedman
1991 Andrew Casson and Clifford Taubes
1996 Richard S. Hamilton and Gang Tian
2001 Jeff Cheeger, Yakov Eliashberg and Michael J. Hopkins
2004 David Gabai
2007 Peter Kronheimer and Tomasz Mrowka; Peter Ozsváth and Zoltán Szabó
2010 Tobias Colding and William Minicozzi II; Paul Seidel
2013 Ian Agol and Daniel Wise
2016 Fernando Codá Marques and André Neves

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