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Karen Uhlenbeck from US won the Abel Prize in mathematics for her work on partial differential equations. She is the first woman to win the award from the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters. Her theories have revolutionised understanding of minimal surfaces such as those formed by soap bubbles and general minimization problems in higher dimensions. Karen, 76, is a visiting research scholar at Princeton University as well as visiting Associate at the Institute for Advanced Study in the US. The prize comes with a cheque for $703,000.
It has been named after the 19th century Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel and was established in 2002. Karen is also seen as a role model for gender equality in science and mathematics.
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