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Charles Fefferman, a prominent mathematician in the field of Mathematics, is the Herbert E. Jones, Jr. '43 University Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. He received a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Maryland in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1969 under the supervision of Elias M. Stein. His professional career commenced as a lecturer at Princeton from 1969 to 1970. He then held positions at the University of Chicago as assistant professor from 1970 to 1971 and professor from 1971 to 1973, achieving full professorship at age 22, one of the youngest in U.S. history. Since 1973, Fefferman has been at Princeton, serving as professor until 1984 and then in his current endowed chair. He chaired the Princeton Mathematics Department from 1999 to 2002 and has undertaken visiting appointments at institutions including the California Institute of Technology, Courant Institute, University of Paris, and Weizmann Institute.