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Congrats to Princeton senior Joshua Yang on being selected as one of 35 winners of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship! Yang, a philosophy major with a minor in journalism, plans to pursue an MPhil in Modern South Asian Studies at Cambridge in preparation for a career as a journalist.

Gates Cambridge Scholarship
King's College at Cambridge University
Awarded for	post-graduate study at the University of Cambridge
Sponsored by	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Location	Cambridge, England
Established	2000
Website	gatescambridge.org

The Gates Cambridge Scholarship is an international postgraduate award for students to study at the University of Cambridge. The scholarship is extremely competitive with around 1.3% of applicants receiving an award in recent years.^[1]

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation established the Gates Cambridge Scholarships in 2000 with a $210 million donation to support outstanding graduate students' study at the University of Cambridge.^[2] The gift is the largest single donation to a British university.^[3][4] The Gates Cambridge Trust's endowment is valued at £333.9 million as of 2023.^[5]

The scholarship covers the cost of a postgraduate degree at the University of Cambridge and includes funding for academic and professional development. As of 2023, 2,156 students from more than 112 countries have received the scholarship and more than 200 Gates Cambridge Scholars are studying at any time.^[6]

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See also

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• Churchill Scholarship at Cambridge University
• Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University
• Clarendon Scholarship at Oxford University
• Yenching Scholarship at Peking University
• Schwarzman Scholarship at Tsinghua University
• Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan
• Marshall Scholarship for any university in the United Kingdom
• Mitchell Scholarship for any university in the Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland
• Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University
• Jardine Scholarship at University of Oxford and University of Cambridge
• The Flinn Scholarship for any university in Arizona

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Jim Simons: Life and Philanthropy

Simons Foundation co-founder Jim Simons — an award-winning mathematician and widely regarded as the father of modern quantitative investing — led an extraord...

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For other people named James Simons, see James Simons (disambiguation).

James Simons
Simons in 2007
Born	April 25, 1938 Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	May 10, 2024 (aged 86) New York City, U.S.
Education	Massachusetts Institute of Technology (BS) University of California, Berkeley (MS, PhD)
Occupation(s)	Hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, philanthropist
Known for	Founding and managing Renaissance Technologies Simons formula Chern–Simons form
Spouses	Barbara Bluestein ​ ​ (m. 1959; div. 1974)​ Marilyn Hawrys   ​ (m. 1977)​ [1]
Children	5, including Nat[2]
Awards	Oswald Veblen Prize (1976)[3]
Scientific career
Fields	Differential geometry, cryptography, quantitative financial analysis
Thesis	On the Transitivity of Holonomy Systems (1962)
Doctoral advisor	Bertram Kostant
Doctoral students	Jeff Cheeger

James Harris Simons (April 25, 1938 – May 10, 2024) was an American hedge fund manager, investor, mathematician, and philanthropist.^[4] At the time of his death, Simons' net worth was estimated to be $31.4 billion, making him the 55th-richest person in the world.^[4] He was the founder of Renaissance Technologies, a quantitative hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York. He and his fund are known to be quantitative investors, using mathematical models and algorithms to make investment gains from market inefficiencies. Due to the long-term aggregate investment returns of Renaissance and its Medallion Fund, Simons was described as the "greatest investor on Wall Street", and more specifically "the most successful hedge fund manager of all time".^[5][6][7]

Simons was known for his studies on pattern recognition.^[8] He developed the Chern–Simons form (with Shiing-Shen Chern), and contributed to the development of string theory by providing a theoretical framework to combine geometry and topology with quantum field theory.^[9]

In 1994, Simons and his wife, Marilyn, founded the Simons Foundation to support research in mathematics and fundamental sciences. The foundation is the top benefactor of Stony Brook University, Marilyn's alma mater, and is a major contributor to his alma maters, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley. Simons was a member of the boards of the Stony Brook Foundation, the MIT Corporation, and the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute in Berkeley, as well as chair of boards of Math for America, the Simons Foundation, and Renaissance Technologies.^[10][11] In 2023, the Simons Foundation gave $500 million to Stony Brook University, the second-largest donation to a public university in American history.^[12] In 2016, the International Astronomical Union named asteroid 6618 Jimsimons, which Clyde Tombaugh discovered in 1936, after Simons in honor of his contributions to mathematics and philanthropy.^[13]