Richard Schoen

Schoen is the kind of figure I find quietly magnetic: a man from tiny Fort Recovery, Ohio, who reshaped how we understand curved space. I confess the technical depth of the Yamabe problem is beyond me, but the roster of honors he holds, the MacArthur, the Wolf Prize, the Guggenheim, tells me everything. These aren't popularity contests; they're the verdict of the sharpest minds alive. What moves me is the contrast between his global stature and his utter invisibility to the public. He chose chalk dust over spotlight, and to me that restraint is its own form of greatness worth saluting.

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Name (English)

Richard Schoen

Name (Japanese)

リチャード・シェーン

Reading

りちゃーど・しぇーん

Born

October 23, 1950 (age 75)

Origin

Fort Recovery, Ohio, United States

Occupation

mathematician / university teacher / academic

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Tiger

University

Stanford University

Awards & achievements

• Guggenheim Fellowship
• 1983 MacArthur Fellows Program
• 2017 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
• 1989 Bôcher Memorial Prize
• Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2013 Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

• Official sitehttps://profiles.stanford.edu/richard-schoen
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Schoen
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q455610

Tags

• Ohio
• mathematician
• university teacher
• academic

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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