2026 Shiing-Shen Chern: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	58	617	310	192	20965

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Mathematics

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Research.com Recognitions

1983 - Wolf Prize in Mathematics for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.
1975 - US President's National Medal of Science "For developing and extending techniques that led to profound discoveries in geometry and topology.", Presented by President Ford at a White House Ceremony on October 18, 1976.
1966 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1961 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1954 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Shiing-Shen Chern was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their academic work spanned primarily the fields of Mathematics and Physics and Astronomy, with notable contributions to subfields such as Applied Mathematics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Geometry and Topology.

Their research focused on topics including:

Geometric Analysis and Curvature Flows
Advanced Differential Geometry Research
Geometry and complex manifolds

Among the published work, the scientist authored a paper titled Dupin Submanifolds in Lie Sphere Geometry (updated version) in 2020. This work was published in the venue arXiv (Cornell University).

Frequent collaborators included Thomas E. Cecil.

Shiing-Shen Chern received several awards throughout their career, including:

Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1983) for outstanding contributions to global differential geometry, which have profoundly influenced all mathematics.
US President's National Medal of Science (1975), with the citation, "For developing and extending techniques that led to profound discoveries in geometry and topology," presented by President Ford at a White House Ceremony on October 18, 1976.
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in both 1954 and 1966.
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1961).

Best Publications

An Introduction to Riemann-Finsler Geometry

David Dai-Wai Bao;Shiing-Shen Chern;Zhongmin Shen

2208
Citations
Lectures On Differential Geometry

S S Chern;W H Chen;K S Lam

2077
Citations
Exterior Differential Systems

Robert L. Bryant;Shiing-Shen Chern;Robert B. Gardner;Phillip Griffiths

1417
Citations
Real hypersurfaces in complex manifolds

S. S. Chern;S. S. Chern;J. K. Moser;J. K. Moser

1354
Citations
Characteristic forms and geometric invariants

Shiing-Shen Chern;James Simons

1312
Citations
Complex manifolds without potential theory

Shiing-Shen Chern

808
Citations
Riemann-Finsler geometry

Shiing-Shen Chern;Zhongmin Shen

739
Citations
Minimal Submanifolds of a Sphere with Second Fundamental Form of Constant Length

S. S. Chern;S. S. Chern;M. do Carmo;M. do Carmo;S. Kobayashi;S. Kobayashi

729
Citations
A simple instrinsic proof of the Gauss Bonnet formula for closed Riemannian manifolds

Shiing-Shen Chern

646
Citations
Differential Geometry: Cartan's Generalization of Klein's Erlangen Program

R. W. Sharpe;Shiing-Shen Chern

621
Citations
Characteristic Classes of Hermitian Manifolds

Shiing-shen Chern

463
Citations
Hermitian vector bundles and the equidistribution of the zeroes of their holomorphic sections

Raoul Bott;Raoul Bott;S. S. Chern;S. S. Chern

434
Citations
On the Curvatura Integra in a Riemannian Manifold

Shiing-shen Chern

411
Citations
On the Total Curvature of Immersed Manifolds

Shiing-Shen Chern;Richard K. Lashof

366
Citations
Minimal surfaces by moving frames

Shiing-shen Chern;Jon Gordon Wolfson

277
Citations
An elementary proof of the existence of isothermal parameters on a surface

Shiing-shen Chern

263
Citations
Complete minimal surfaces in Euclidean n -space

Shiing-Shen Chern;Robert Osserman

241
Citations
Some Theorems on the Isometric Imbedding of Compact Riemann Manifolds in Euclidean Space

Shiing-Shen Chern;Nicolaas H. Kuiper

236
Citations
The geometry of $G$-structures

S. S. Chern

208
Citations
Linear Differential Operators

Robert L. Bryant;S. S. Chern;Robert B. Gardner;Hubert L. Goldschmidt

50
Citations
On Finsler geometry

Shiing-Shen Chern

24
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Friedrich Hirzebruch Max Planck Institute for Mathematics

Robert L. Bryant Duke University

Zhongmin Shen Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis

Phillip A. Griffiths Institute for Advanced Study

Raoul Bott Harvard University

Jacques Tits Collège de France

Jean-Pierre Serre Collège de France

Jürgen Moser ETH Zurich

Elias M. Stein Princeton University

Robert Osserman Mathematical Sciences Research Institute

External Links

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