3. Shiing-ShenCherncontributions and biography Born in Jiaxing on Oct 26, 1911 He was awarded the National Medal of Science in 1975 and the Wolf Prize in 1983/84 Shiing-ShenChern passed away in Tianjin, China, on December 3, 2004 at the age of 93. He had spent the last five years of his life in Tianjin. http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/senate/inmemoriam/shiingshenchern.htm http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Chern.html
4. He published results in integral geometry, value distribution theory of holomorphic functions, and minimal submanifolds. He was a follower of ÉlieCartan, working on the 'theory of equivalence' in his time in China from 1937 to 1943 In 1954 he published his own treatment of the pseudogroup problem that is in effect the touchstone of Cartan's geometric theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiing-Shen_Chern#Research
5. Chern died of heart failure following a heart attack. Throughout his career, he has been known for his generosity and kindness, noted his colleagues He obtained his doctorate from Hamburg in 1936 Chern developed what became a lifelong interest in differential geometry http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/12/06_chern.shtml http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0932938.html
