Charles Fefferman

Charles Louis Fefferman is an American mathematician at Princeton University, born in Washington, DC, on 18 April 1949, where he is the Herbert E. Jones, Jr. '43 University Professor of Mathematics. He was a child prodigy, entered the University of Maryland at age 14, graduated at 17, and earned his PhD at Princeton under Elias Stein three years later with a dissertation on inequalities for strongly singular convolution operators. At 22 he became a full professor at the University of Chicago, the youngest ever appointed in the United States. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for his work in mathematical analysis, including partial differential equations, Fourier analysis, convergence, multipliers and Hardy spaces, and he revived the study of multidimensional complex analysis. His honors include the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1976, the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 2008 and the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2017.