Abel Prize: American professor is first woman to win prestigious math award
Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck of the University of Texas at Austin wins one of the world’s most prestigious mathematics awards.
US mathematician Karen Keskulla Uhlenbeck has won the 2019 Abel Prize — one of the field’s most prestigious awards — for her wide-ranging work in analysis, geometry and mathematical physics. Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the 6-million-kroner (US$702,500) prize, which is given out by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, since it was first awarded in 2003.
