Jeff Cheeger Invested as a Member of the American Academy of Sciences and Letters

November 5, 2026

Jeff Cheeger, Silver Professor of Mathematics, was invested into the American Academy of Sciences and Letters in a ceremony at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC yesterday evening. 

The American Academy of Sciences and Letters promotes scholarship and honors outstanding
achievement in the arts, sciences, and learned professions. It supports learning by encouraging the
exchange of ideas within academia and in society at large, and by sponsoring occasions for scholarly
interaction and providing platforms for the presentation and dissemination of scholarship in the
humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.

Professor Cheeger was selected in recognition of outstanding scholarly achievement. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences, in addition to being a foreign member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society and was awarded the 14th Veblen Prize in Geometry in 2001 in recognition for his work in differential geometry.

Richard A. Epstein, the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law and the director of the Classical
Liberal Institute at New York University, was also among the new memebers invested at yesterday's event. You can find the full list of new members on the Academy's website.