Biography

1930Born July 15 at Flint, Michigan

1952BS, University of Michigan

1953MS, University of Michigan

1957PhD, University of Michigan

1956–58Instructor, University of Chicago

1958–60Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

1960–62Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

1960–61Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

1961–64Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University

1962Visiting Professor, College de France, Paris (Spring)

1964–94Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

1966Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (Fall)

1967–68Research Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, Berkeley

1969–70Visiting Member, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Fall)

1972–73Visiting Member, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (Fall)

1972–73Visiting Professor, University of Paris, Orsay (Fall)

1974Visiting Professor, Yale University (Fall)

1976Visiting Professor, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro

1976Visiting Professor, Institut des Hautes études Scientifiques (May, June)

1976–Professor without stipend, Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

1979–80Research Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, Berkeley

1987Visiting Scientist, IBM Corporation, Yorktown Heights (Fall)

1987Visiting Professor, Columbia University (Fall)

1988Visiting Professor, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro

1994Visiting Professor, Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada, Rio de Janeiro

1994–Professor of Mathematics (and Economics) Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

1995–2001Distinguished University Professor, City University of Hong Kong

2002–2009Professor, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

2009–PresentUniversity Distinguished Professor, City University of Hong Kong

Honours (Selected)

1974 Honorary Degree, University of Warwick

1987 Honorary Degree, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

1994 Class of the Grand Cross of the Brasilian National Order of Scientific Merit

1996 Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Michigan

1996 National Medal of Science, Washington, D. C.

1997 Doctor Honoris Causa, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris

1997 Honorary Doctor of Science, City University of Hong Kong

1997 Honorary Member of the Moscow Mathematical Society

1998 Honorary Member of the London Mathematical Society

1999 Honorary Doctorate of Rostov State University

2004 Honorary Doctorate of University of Genoa

2005 Jurgen Moser Prize of SIAM, Dynamics Group

2007 Wolf Prize