Born:(1950-10-23) October 23, 1950 (age 75), Fort Recovery, Ohio, U.S.
Awards:NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (1972), , Sloan Research Fellowship (1979), , MacArthur Fellowship (1983), , American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988), , Bôcher Memorial Prize (1989), , National Academy of Sciences (1991), , Fellow of the AAAS (1995), , Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), , Fellow of the AMS (2012), , Dean's Teaching Award, Stanford University (2014–15), , Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Warwick (2015), , Wolf Prize (2017), , Heinz Hopf Prize (2017), , Lobachevsky Medal and Prize (2017), , Rolf Schock Prize (2017)
Fields:Mathematics
Spouse:Doris Fischer-Colbrie
Thesis:Existence and Regularity Theorems for some Geometric Variational Problems
Known for:Differentiable sphere theorem, , Geometry of positive scalar curvature, , Positive mass theorem, , Geometry and regularity theory of harmonic maps and stable minimal hypersurfaces, , Yamabe problem
Alma mater:University of Dayton (BSc.), Stanford University (Ph.D.)
Institutions:Courant Institute, NYU, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Irvine, University of California, San Diego
Doctoral advisor:Leon Simon, , Shing-Tung Yau
Doctoral students:Hubert Bray, , José F. Escobar, , Ailana Fraser, , Lan-Hsuan Huang, , Chikako Mese, , William Minicozzi, , André Neves