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Karen Uhlenbeck is an American mathematician born in 1942 who has made significant contributions to her field. While specific details about her work and achievements are not provided in the available context, she is recognized as an important figure in mathematics.
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- human
- Given name
- Karen
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Cleveland
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Position held
- professor emeritus
- Employer
- University of Illinois Chicago
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Richard Palais
- Field of work
- mathematical physics
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- Uhlenbeck Karen 1982 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1942-08-24
- member of
- Association for Women in Mathematics
- Commons category
- Karen Uhlenbeck
- Erdős number
- 3
- birth name
- Karen Keskulla
- name in native language
- Karen Uhlenbeck
- influenced by
- Vera Pless
- relative
- George Uhlenbeck
- interested in
- mathematical analysis
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck ForMemRS (born August 24, 1942) is an American mathematician and one of the founders of modern geometric analysis. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she held the Sid W. Richardson Foundation Regents Chair. She is currently a distinguished visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University.
Uhlenbeck was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2007. She won the 2019 Abel Prize for "her pioneering achievements in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory, and integrable systems, and for the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics." She is the first, and so far only, woman to win the prize since its inception in 2003. She donated half of the prize money to organizations which promote more engagement of women and other minorities in research mathematics.
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