请看MSRI现任所长David Eisenbud的EMAIL, 其中的LINK有陈先生的一些照片和INFO. 毕竟这是体育沙龙, 就不再多说了.

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Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 14:45:22 -0800
From: David Eisenbud
Subject: Shiing-Shen Chern: 1911-2004

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

I'm sad to share with you what I just learned: Shiing-Shen Chern,
cofounder and first Director of MSRI (1982-85), died yesterday after a
brief illness in China. Chern was truly a towering figure in 20th
century mathematics. Aside from his fundamental contributions in
geometry (I use Chern classes every day! -- and that was just the
beginning) he was mentor to many, many mathematicians both here (he
taught at the University of Chicago and then, for most of his career,
at Berkeley) and in China. His national celebrity in China was
immense. A star was named for him. He had close ties to President
Jiang Zhemin, and used them to benefit mathematics in many ways.

Though he returned to China in 1999, Chern remained a strong supporter
of MSRI. His major gift sparked MSRI's successful campaign to expand
its building, and when he was honored this year with the the Shaw
Prize for Mathematics, he gave MSRI a large additional gift from the
proceeds.

You can find a brief biography of Chern that we put together on the
occasion of a Symposium in his honor in 1998 from MSRI's home page, or
directly at

http://www.msri.org/chern_04.pdf

I feel personally honored to have known this great man, and to have
had his help, friendship and tutelage at MSRI. We will all miss him
greatly.

in sorrow,

David Eisenbud
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President, American Mathematical Society http://www.ams.org

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