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Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. He is currently a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London. After being a member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics (SCGP) for a decade, he holds Emeritus Profes…

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Born 20 August 1957 · Q334039

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Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2020).
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Awarded Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (2019).
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2020· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2020Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2020).

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Received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics (jointly with Yakov Eliashberg)

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2019· 2 entries

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Awarded Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (2019).

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Donaldson was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry, together with Xiuxiong Chen and Song Sun, for proving a long-standing conjecture on Fano manifolds, which states "that a Fano manifold admits a Kähler–Einstein m

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2017· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2017Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Madrid Complutense presented by Complutense University of Madrid (2017).

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2015· 1 entry

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As a three-article series, "Kähler–Einstein metrics on Fano manifolds, I, II and III"

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2014· 4 entries

Jun 15, 2014Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded honorary doctorate from Joseph Fourier University (2014).

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Jun 15, 2014Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014).

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Was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics "for the new revolutionary invariants of 4-dimensional manifolds and for the study of the relation between stability in algebraic geometry and in global differential g

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2014Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Joined the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York, United States

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2013· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2013Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).

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2012· 1 entry

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Became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society

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2010· 1 entry

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Donaldson was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

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2009· 2 entries

Jun 15, 2009Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences (2009).

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2009Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was awarded the Shaw Prize in Mathematics (jointly with Clifford Taubes) for their contributions to geometry in 3 and 4 dimensions

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2008· 1 entry

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Awarded Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2008).

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2006· 1 entry

Jun 15, 2006Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (2006).

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1999· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1999Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Pólya Prize (1999).

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1994· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1994Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Crafoord Prize in Mathematics (1994).

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1994Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was awarded the Crafoord Prize in Mathematics

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1992· 1 entry

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Won Royal Medal (1992).

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1986· 2 entries

Jun 15, 1986Documented record84% confidence

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Won Fields medal (1986).

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1986Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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Was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) and received a Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Berkeley

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1985· 1 entry

1985Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Donaldson received the Junior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society

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1984· 1 entry

Jun 15, 1984Documented record84% confidence

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Awarded Whitehead Prize (1984).

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1983· 2 entries

1983Source gives the year onlyDocumented record66% confidence

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And a plenary speaker at the ICM in 1986, 1998, and 2018

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1983Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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Donaldson was appointed a Junior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford

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1982· 1 entry

1982Source gives the year onlyDocumented record70% confidence

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A result that would establish his fame and later become known as Donaldson's theorem

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1979· 1 entry

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And in 1980 began postgraduate work at Worcester College, Oxford, at first under Nigel Hitchin and later under Michael Atiyah's supervision

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1957· 1 entry

Aug 20, 1957Documented record86% confidence

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Born 1957-08-20.

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