The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2009 Laureate

Clifford H Taubes, born 1954 in Rochester, New York, USA, is currently the William Petschek Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University. He was an undergraduate at Cornell University and received his PhD in Physics from Harvard University in 1980. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences 2009 is awarded in equal shares to Simon K Donaldson and Clifford H Taubes for their many brilliant contributions to geometry
in 3 and 4 dimensions.