Michael Atiyah

Sir

Michael Atiyah

OM FRS FRSE FMedSci FAA HonFREng
Sir; Michael Atiyah; OM FRS FRSE FMedSci FAA HonFREng
	Michael Atiyah in 2007
Born	Michael Francis Atiyah; 22 April 1929; Hampstead, London, England
Died	11 January 2019 (aged 89); Edinburgh, Scotland
Education	Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, PhD);
Known for	Atiyah algebroid; Atiyah conjecture; Atiyah conjecture on configurations; Atiyah flop; Atiyah–Bott formula; Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem; Atiyah–Floer conjecture; Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence; Atiyah–Jones conjecture; Atiyah–Hitchin–Singer theorem; Atiyah–Singer index theorem; Atiyah–Segal completion theorem; ADHM construction; Fredholm module; Eta invariant; K-theory; KR-theory; Pin group; Toric manifold
Awards	Berwick Prize (1961); Fields Medal (1966); Royal Medal (1968); De Morgan Medal (1980); Copley Medal (1988); Abel Prize (2004);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Oxford; Institute for Advanced Study; University of Leicester; University of Edinburgh; University of Cambridge;
Thesis	Some Applications of Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry (1955)
Doctoral advisor	W. V. D. Hodge
Doctoral students	Simon Donaldson; K. David Elworthy; Nigel Hitchin; Lisa Jeffrey; Frances Kirwan; Peter Kronheimer; Ruth Lawrence; George Lusztig; Ian R. Porteous; Graeme Segal; David O. Tall;
Other notable students	Edward Witten

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah OM FRS FRSE FMedSci FAA HonFREng (/əˈtiːə/; 22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019) 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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