Meet Karen Uhlenbeck, The First Woman to Ever Win the ‘Nobel Prize of Math’

Karen Uhlenbeck
Karen Uhlenbeck

When Dr. Uhlenbeck found out she’d won, she was leaving her Unitarian Universalist Church when she received a text message from a colleague telling her to look out for a call from Norway. “I pressed the button and called [the Abel committee] back and they told me I’d won—and I had to sit down,” Dr. Uhlenbeck told Glamour.

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