| 1911 |
Born October 26 at Kashing, China |
| 1930 |
B.Sc., Nankai University, Tientsin, China |
| 1934 |
M.Sc., Tsinghua University, Peiping, China |
| 1936 |
D.Sc., University of Hamburg, Germany |
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| 1937–43 |
Professor of Mathematics, Tsinghua University, China |
| 1943–46 |
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey |
| 1946–49 |
Professor of Mathematics and Acting Director, Institute of Mathematics, Academia Sinica, Nanking, China |
| 1949–60 |
Professor of Mathematics, University of Chicago |
| 1960–79 |
Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1979 |
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley |
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| 1952 |
Visiting Professor, Harvard University |
| 1953 |
Visiting Professor, Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zurich |
| 1957 |
Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 1964 |
Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| 1966 |
Visiting Professor, University of California, Los Angeles |
| 1967 Apr |
Member, Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, Paris |
| 1970 Aug |
Visiting Professor, IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil |
| 1972 |
Visiting Professor, University of Warwick, Coventry, England |
| 1973 |
Visiting Professor, Rockefeller University, New York |
| 1948 |
Member, Academia Sinica, Bejing, China |
| 1950 |
Honorary Member, Indian Mathematical Society |
| 1954–55 |
Guggenheim Fellow |
| 1960 |
Colloquium Lecturer, American Mathematical Society |
| 1961 |
Member, National Academy of Science |
| 1962–64 |
Vice President, American Mathematical Society |
| 1963 |
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 1963–64 |
Miller Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1966–67 |
Guggenheim Fellow |
| 1969 |
LL.D. (Hon), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, May |
| 1969 |
D.Sc. (Hon), University of Chicago, August 29 |
| 1970 |
Achievement Award, Association of Chinese Engineers and Scientist in Southern California, February 28, 1970 |
| 1971 |
Honorary D.Sc., University of Hamburg, October |
| 1971 |
Corresponding Member, Brazilian Academy of Sciences |
| 1976 Oct |
Awarded National Medal of Science by President Gerald Ford |
| 1978 |
Faculty Research Lecture, April 27, UC Berkeley |
| 1980 |
Offered honorary Doctor of Science degree by Notre Dame University |
| 1982 |
Recipient of the Humboldt Award, presented by the government of West Germany to an outstanding senior U.S. scientist |
| 1983 |
Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society, August 10, 1983 |
| 1985 |
Foreign member, Royal Society of London |
| 1987 |
Honorary Life Member, New York Academy of Science |
