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Michael Atiyah
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Person

Michael Atiyah

1929 – 2019 · aged 90

British mathematician

Born
22 Apr 1929 · Hampstead
Died
11 Jan 2019 · Edinburgh

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 103 years
  1. 22 Apr 1929BornBorn in Hampstead
  2. 1961AwardBerwick Prize
  3. 1963 – 1969RoleSavilian Professor of Geometry
  4. 1966AwardFields medal
  5. 1968AwardRoyal Medal
  6. 1974 – 1976RoleChairperson
  7. 1975AwardRoyal Society Bakerian Medal
  8. 1980AwardDe Morgan Medal
  9. 1981AwardFeltrinelli Prize
  10. 1983AwardKnight Bachelor
  11. 1987AwardKing Faisal Prize in Science
  12. 1988AwardCopley Medal
  13. 1988AwardGunning Victoria Jubilee Prize
  14. 1989AwardForder Lectureship
  15. 1990 – 1997RoleMaster of Trinity College, Cambridge
  16. 1990 – 1995RolePresident of the Royal Society
  17. 1991AwardJosiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship
  18. 2005 – 2008RolePresident of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
  19. 11 Jan 2019DiedDied in Edinburgh

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1929 – 2019).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Sir Michael Francis Atiyah (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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