{"id":88780,"date":"2019-03-19T10:42:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/karen-uhlenbeck-is-first-woman-to-win-abel-prize-for-mathematics"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:42:39","slug":"karen-uhlenbeck-is-first-woman-to-win-abel-prize-for-mathematics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/karen-uhlenbeck-is-first-woman-to-win-abel-prize-for-mathematics","title":{"rendered":"Karen Uhlenbeck Is First Woman to Win Abel Prize for Mathematics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/karen-uhlenbeck-is-first-woman-to-win-abel-prize-for-mathematics2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the first time, one of the top prizes in mathematics has been given to a woman.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced it has awarded this year\u2019s Abel Prize \u2014 an award modeled on the Nobel Prizes \u2014 to Karen Uhlenbeck, an emeritus professor at the University of Texas at Austin. The award cites \u201cthe fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of Dr. Uhlenbeck\u2019s advances in essence described the complex shapes of soap films not in a bubble bath but in abstract, high-dimensional curved spaces. In later work, she helped put a rigorous mathematical underpinning to techniques widely used by physicists in quantum field theory to describe fundamental interactions between particles and forces.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/19\/science\/karen-uhlenbeck-abel-prize.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/19\/science\/karen-uhlenbeck-abel-prize.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time, one of the top prizes in mathematics has been given to a woman. On Tuesday, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters announced it has awarded this year\u2019s Abel Prize \u2014 an award modeled on the Nobel Prizes \u2014 to Karen Uhlenbeck, an emeritus professor at the University of Texas at [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}