Quick Facts About Michael Atiyah
- Born
- April 22, 1929
- Died
- January 11, 2019
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Profession
- Mathematician
- Notable works
- Introduction to Commutative Algebra
- Known for
- Atiyah conjecture, Atiyah algebroid, Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem, Atiyah–Singer index theorem, Atiyah conjecture on configurations
- Spouse
- Lily (Brown) Atiyah
About Michael Atiyah
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah 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.
Biography source:
Wikipedia
Awards & Honors
Copley Medal
Fields medal
Order of Merit
Abel Prize
De Morgan Medal
Feltrinelli Prize
Royal Medal
Benjamin Franklin Medal
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Berwick Prize
Knight Bachelor
Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
Order of Andrés Bello
Grand Prize of the French Academy of Science
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
honorary doctorate
Fellow of the Royal Society
IET Kelvin Lecture
Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences
King Faisal International Prize in Science
Forder Lectureship
Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize
honorary doctor of the Charles University of Prague
honorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca
honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
honorary doctor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Honorary Doctorate from the National Autonomous University of Mexico
Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science
President's Medal
Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales
Royal Society Bakerian Medal
