What is Karen Uhlenbeck?
[[File:Uhlenbeck Karen 1982 (cropped).jpg|thumb|Uhlenbeck in 1982]] '''Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck''' (born August 24, 1942) is an [[Americans|American]] [[mathematician]]. She is a [[professor]] [[emeritus]] of mathematics at the [[University of Texas at Austin]]. At the moment, she is a visiting [[Associate professor|associate]] at the [[Institute for Advanced Study]] and a visiting senior [[research]] [[scholar]] at [[Princeton University]]. In 2000, she was awarded the [[National Medal of Science]]. Uhlenbeck won the 2019 [[Abel Prize]]. She won it for her major work in geometric [[partial differential equations]], [[gauge theory]] and [[integrable system]]s. Another reason she got the Abel Prize was for her key impact of her work on [[mathematical analysis|analysis]], [[geometry]] and [[mathematical physics]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Citation by the Abel Prize Committee|url=http://www.abelprize.no/c73996/binfil/download.php?tid=74095|publisher=[[Abel Prize|The Abel Prize]]|access-date=March 24, 2019|date=March 19, 2019|archive-date=June 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190612182916/https://www.abelprize.no/c73996/binfil/download.php?tid=74095|url-status=dead}}</ref> She is the first woman to win the prize.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Chang |first=Kenneth |title=Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Receive Abel Prize in Mathematics|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/19/science/karen-uhlenbeck-abel-prize.html |date=March 19, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=March 24, 2019}}</ref> Uhlenbeck was born in [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. She is of [[Estonia]]n [[ancestry]]. She is married to [[biochemist]] [[Olke C. Uhlenbeck]]. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Related pages== * [[American Mathematical Society]] * [[Timeline of women in mathematics in the United States]] * [[Timeline of women in mathematics]] ==Other websites== {{Commons category|Karen Uhlenbeck}} * {{Official website|https://web.ma.utexas.edu/users/uhlen/}} {{Abel Prize winners}} {{authority control}} {{US-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:U