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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.
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science · British-Lebanese mathematician (1929–2019) · mathematician · topologist · university teacher · also Michael Atiyah, Michael Francis Atiyah, Michael F. Atiyah, Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, Atiyah
Born 22 April 1929 · Died 11 January 2019 · Q208356
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2026· 1 entry
2020· 1 entry
New Scientist: Michael Atiyah
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2019· 6 entries
edinburghnews.scotsman.com: Sir Michael Atiyah’s genius is summed up in his legacy
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Hindustan Times: Noted British mathematician Michael Atiyah with India links dead
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bdnews24: Michael Atiyah, mathematician in Newton’s footsteps, dies at 89
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Died 2019-01-11.
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Was an honorary professor in the University of Edinburgh
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2018· 2 entries
Yahoo: Mathematician Michael Atiyah Claims He Solved 160-Year-Old Math Problem Riemann Hypothesis
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Lily Atiyah died on 13 March 2018 at the age of 90 while Sir Michael Atiyah died less than a year later on 11 January 2019, aged 89.
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2016· 1 entry
Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (2016).
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Grand Prize of the French Academy of Science (2010).
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University Polytechnic of Catalonia (2008).
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Won President's Medal (2008).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded IET Kelvin Lecture (2006).
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2005· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2005–2008).
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2004· 1 entry
Awarded Abel Prize (2004).
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2002· 1 entry
Atiyah's eldest son John died on 24 June 2002 while on a walking holiday in the Pyrenees with his wife Maj-Lis.
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2000).
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1997· 1 entry
Awarded Order of Andrés Bello (1997).
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1995· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate presented by The Open University (1995).
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1993· 2 entries
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (1993).
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The President's Medal from the Institute of Physics in 2008, the Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences in 2010 and the Grand Officier of the French Légion d'honneur in 2011
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1992· 4 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1992).
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Awarded Order of Merit (1992).
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Awarded Corresponding Member of the Australian Academy of Science (1992).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca (1992).
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1991· 1 entry
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (1991).
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1990· 3 entries
Awarded Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize (1990).
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Career landmark: President of the Royal Society (1990–1995).
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Career landmark: Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (1990–1997).
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Forder Lectureship (1989).
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1988· 2 entries
Won Copley Medal (1988).
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The Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society in 1993, the Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Medal
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (1987).
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Knight Bachelor (1983).
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And made a member of the Order of Merit in 1992
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1981· 1 entry
Awarded Feltrinelli Prize (1981).
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1980· 1 entry
Won De Morgan Medal (1980).
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1975· 1 entry
Won Royal Society Bakerian Medal (1975).
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1974· 1 entry
Career landmark: chairperson (1974–1976).
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1968· 2 entries
Won Royal Medal (1968).
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The De Morgan Medal of the London Mathematical Society in 1980, the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in 1981, the King Faisal International Prize for Science in 1987, the Copley Medal of
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1966· 2 entries
Won Fields medal (1966).
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When he was thirty-seven years old, he was awarded the Fields Medal, for his work in developing K-theory, a generalized Lefschetz fixed-point theorem and the Atiyah–Singer theorem, for which he also won the Abel Prize jo
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1963· 2 entries
Career landmark: Savilian Professor of Geometry (1963–1969).
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And is used in counting the number of independent solutions to differential equations
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded Berwick Prize (1961).
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Moved to the University of Oxford, where he was a reader and professorial fellow at St Catherine's College (1961–1963)
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1955· 2 entries
For a thesis entitled Some Applications of Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry
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Studied at University of Cambridge, Doctor (1952–1955).
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1952· 1 entry
Studied at Trinity College (1949–1952).
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1947· 1 entry
Studied at The Manchester Grammar School (1945–1947).
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1945· 1 entry
Studied at Victoria College (1941–1945).
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1929· 1 entry
Born 1929-04-22.
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