Richard Schoen

Richard Schoen
Schoen in 2015
Born	(1950-10-23) October 23, 1950 (age 74) Fort Recovery, Ohio, U.S.[15]
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Dayton (BSc.) Stanford University (Ph.D.)
Known for	Differentiable sphere theorem Geometry of positive scalar curvature Positive mass theorem Geometry and regularity theory of harmonic maps and stable minimal hypersurfaces Yamabe problem
Spouse	Doris Fischer-Colbrie
Awards	NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (1972) Sloan Research Fellowship (1979)[1] MacArthur Fellowship (1983)[2] American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1988) [3] Bôcher Memorial Prize (1989)[4] National Academy of Sciences (1991)[5] Fellow of the AAAS (1995) Guggenheim Fellowship (1996)[6] Fellow of the AMS (2012)[7] Dean's Teaching Award, Stanford University (2014–15)[8] Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Warwick (2015)[9][10] Wolf Prize (2017)[11] Heinz Hopf Prize (2017)[12] Lobachevsky Medal and Prize (2017)[13] Rolf Schock Prize (2017)[14]
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	Courant Institute, NYU Stanford University University of California, Berkeley University of California, Irvine University of California, San Diego
Thesis	Existence and Regularity Theorems for some Geometric Variational Problems
Doctoral advisor	Leon Simon Shing-Tung Yau
Doctoral students	Hubert Bray José F. Escobar Ailana Fraser Lan-Hsuan Huang Chikako Mese William Minicozzi André Neves

Richard Melvin Schoen (born October 23, 1950) is an American mathematician known for his work in differential geometry and geometric analysis. He is best known for the resolution of the Yamabe problem in 1984 and his works on harmonic maps.