Clifford Taubes

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Clifford Taubes
Taubes in 2010.
Born	(1954-02-21) February 21, 1954 (age 70) New York City, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University
Known for	Taubes's Gromov invariant Bott–Taubes polytope
Awards	Shaw Prize (2009) Clay Research Award (2008) NAS Award in Mathematics (2008) Veblen Prize (1991)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematical physics
Institutions	Harvard University
Thesis	The Structure of Static Euclidean Gauge Fields  (1980)
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Jaffe
Doctoral students	Michael Hutchings Tomasz Mrowka

Clifford Henry Taubes (born February 21, 1954)^[1] is the William Petschek Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University and works in gauge field theory, differential geometry, and low-dimensional topology. His brother is the journalist Gary Taubes.