Michael Atiyah
1929
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2019
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: United Kingdom
languages spoken, written or signed: English
educated at: Trinity College, The Manchester Grammar School, University of Cambridge, Victoria College
occupation: mathematician, topologist, university teacher
award received: Fields medal, Copley Medal, Abel Prize, Royal medal, King Faisal International Prize in Science, De Morgan Medal, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, Grande médaille de l’Académie des sciences, Order of Merit, Royal Society Bakerian Medal, honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia, Berwick Prize, honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague, Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences, honorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca, Fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Fellow of the Royal Society, Knight Bachelor, honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales, IET Kelvin Lecture, Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize, President's Medal
position held: President of the Royal Society
student of: W. V. D. Hodge
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry. His contributions include the Atiyah–Singer index theorem and co-founding topological K-theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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