Charles Fefferman
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| Born |
April 18, 1949 Washington, D.C., United States |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions |
Princeton University, University of Chicago |
| Alma mater |
University of Maryland, College Park Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Elias Stein |
| Doctoral students | Spyros Alexakis |
| Notable awards |
Alan T. Waterman Award (1976) Fields Medal (1978) Bergman Prize (1992) Bôcher Memorial Prize (2008) Wolf Prize (2017) |
Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is an American mathematician at Princeton University. His primary field of research is mathematical analysis.
A child prodigy, Fefferman entered college by the age of 11 and had written his first scientific paper by the age of 15 in German. He received his B.S. from University of Maryland in mathematics, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at age 17. Then, he received his PhD in mathematics at 20 from Princeton University under Elias Stein, Fefferman achieved a full professorship at the University of Chicago at the age of 22. This made him the youngest full professor ever appointed in the United States. At 24, he returned to Princeton to assume a full professorship there — a position he still holds. He won the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1976 (the first person to get the award) and the Fields Medal in 1978 for his work in mathematical analysis, specifically convergence and divergence. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1979. He was appointed the Herbert Jones Professor at Princeton in 1984.
In addition to the above, his honors include the Salem Prize, the Bôcher Memorial Prize, the Bergman Prize and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics for 2017, as well as election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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