US Professor Becomes First Woman to Be Awarded Mathematics’ Most Prestigious Abel Prize

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Karen Uhlenbeck is a 76-year-old mathematician and professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the most recent recipient of the Abel Prize, a prestigious award modeled after the Nobels in recognition of outstanding achievement in the field of mathematics. Uhlenbeck is the first woman to ever receive the award.