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Soap-bubble pioneer is first woman to win prestigious maths prize

Abel-prize winner Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck built bridges between analysis, geometry and physics.
  1. Davide Castelvecchi
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US mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck has won the 2019 Abel Prize — one of the field’s most prestigious awards — for her wide-ranging work in analysis, geometry and mathematical physics. Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the 6-million-kroner (US$702,500) prize, which is given out by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, since it was first awarded in 2003.

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Nature 567, 295-296 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-00932-1

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  1. Sacks, J. & Uhlenbeck, K. Ann. Math. 113, 1–24 (1981).

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  2. Uhlenbeck, K. K. Commun. Math. Phys. 83, 11–29 (1982).

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