U.S. News & World Report: Michael Freedman
- #news
- #headline
Figure timeline
Michael Freedman
Michael Hartley Freedman is an American mathematician at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Freedman classification named after him and subsequently the 4-dimensional generalized Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
science · American mathematician (born 1951) · mathematician · university teacher · physicist · also Michael Freedman, Michael H. Freedman, Freedman
Born 21 April 1951 · Q333494
15 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
1 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Award
- Award
2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
Los Angeles Business Journal: Leaders of Influence: Litigators & Trial Attorneys 2023 – Michael Freedman
- #news
- #headline
2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1994· 1 entry
Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship (1994).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1987· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (1987).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #trophy
- #achievement
1986· 4 entries
Won Fields medal (1986).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #trophy
- #achievement
Awarded Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1986).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
Was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the Freedman classification named after him and subsequently the 4-dimensional generalized Poincaré conjecture
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
In Berkeley, he was an Invited Speaker at the ICM in 1983 in Warsaw and at the ICM in 1998 in Berlin
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1984· 1 entry
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1984).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1980· 1 entry
Awarded Sloan Fellowship (1980).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #award
- #achievement
1976· 1 entry
Was appointed assistant professor in the department of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1973· 1 entry
For his doctoral dissertation titled Codimension-Two Surgery, written under the supervision of William Browder
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1968· 1 entry
Continued his studies and received a Ph
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1951· 1 entry
Born 1951-04-21.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth