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William Thurston
William Paul Thurston was an American mathematician. He was a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology and was awarded the Fields Medal in 1982 for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds.
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science · American mathematician (1946–2012) · mathematician · topologist · university teacher · also William Thurston, William Paul Thurston, William P. Thurston, Thurston
Born 30 October 1946 · Died 21 August 2012 · Q333927
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2012· 3 entries
Died 2012-08-21.
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Awarded Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research (2012).
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2005· 2 entries
Awarded Joseph Doob Prize (2005).
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Thurston won the first American Mathematical Society Book Prize, for Three-dimensional Geometry and Topology
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1991· 1 entry
To be a professor (1991-1996) and was also director of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI) from 1992 to 1997
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate from University of Paris-XI (1986).
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1982· 3 entries
Won Fields medal (1982).
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For his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds
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For "revolutioniz[ing] [the] study of topology in 2 and 3 dimensions, showing interplay between analysis, topology, and geometry" and "contribut[ing] [the] idea that a very large class of closed 3-manifolds carry a hyper
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1981· 1 entry
Announced the orbifold theorem, an extension of his geometrization theorem to the setting of 3-orbifolds
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Alan T. Waterman Award (1979).
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1976· 2 entries
Awarded Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1976).
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Thurston and James Harris Simons shared the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
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1974· 1 entry
Thurston was appointed a full professor at Princeton University
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1946· 1 entry
Born 1946-10-30.
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