NAS Membership Directory.United States National Academy of Sciences. Truy cập 11 tháng 8 năm 2008.Election citation:"Cheeger has discovered many of the deepest results in Riemannian geometry, such as estimates for the spectrum of the Laplace-Beltrami operator, and the identity of the analytic and geometric definitions of torsion, and has led to the solution of problems in topology, graph theory, number theory, and Markov processes."