美籍华人数学家丘成桐获马塞尔・格罗斯曼奖
Chinese-born American mathematician Shing-Tung Yau has won the Marcel Grossmann Award. The award was delivered at the Fifteenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting in Rome, July 2, 2018.
美籍华人数学家丘成桐获马塞尔·格罗斯曼奖,该奖于7月2日在罗马举行的第15届马塞尔·格罗斯曼会议上颁布。
It's the first time a Chinese-born mathematician has won the award.
Yau has been given his award for a proof of the positivity of total mass in the theory of general relativity and perfecting as well the concept of quasi-local mass, for his proof of the Calabi conjecture, for his continuous inspiring role in the study of black holes physics.
The Marcel Grossmann Award is one of the most important awards in physics.
Chinese physicians Chen-Ning Yang and Chinese-American physicist Tsung-Dao Lee have won previous Marcel Grossmann Awards.
For twitter: Chinese mathematician Yau Shing-tung has won the Marcel Grossmann Award, the first time the award was given to a Chinese-born mathematician.