Michael Atiyah#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 22 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | MATHEMATICS |
| Elected: | 1988 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/people/show?person=75 |
Michael Atiah passed away January 11, 2019.
Positions Held
- Since 1997 Honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh
- 2005 - 2008 President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- 1995 - 2005 Chancellor of the University of Leicester
- 1990 - 1995 President of the Royal Society
- 1990 - 1996 the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge
- 1974 - 1976 President of the London Mathematical Society
- 1969 - 1972 Professorship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
- 1963 - 1969 Savilian Professor of Geometry and a professorial fellow of New College, Oxford
- 1961 - 1963 Reader and professorial fellow at St Catherine's College
- 1958 - 1961 University lecturer and tutorial fellow at Pembroke College
- 1957 - 1958 Research fellow and assistant lecturer, Cambridge University
Fields of Scholarship
- Geometry and topology
- Mathematical physics
Honours and Awards
- 1966 the Fields Medal
- 1968 the Royal Medal of the Royal Society
- 1980 the De Morgan Medal of the London Mathematical Society
- 1981 the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- 1983 Knight Bachelor
- 1987 the King Faisal International Prize for Science
- 1988 the Copley Medal of the Royal Society
- 1992 Member of the Order of Merit
- 1993 the Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences of the American Philosophical Society
- 1993 the Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Medal of the Indian National Science Academy
- 2004 the Abel Prize jointly with Isadore Singer
- 2008 the President's Medal from the Institute of Physics
- 2010 the Grande Médaille of the French Academy of Sciences
- 2011 the Grand Officier of the French Légion d'honneur
- Member of the National Academy of Sciences
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Member of the Academie des Sciences
- Member of the Akademie Leopoldina
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy
- Member the Royal Irish Academy
- Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Member of the American Philosophical Society
- Member of the Indian National Science Academy
- Member of the Chinese Academy of Science
- Member of the Australian Academy of Science
- Member of the Russian Academy of Science
- Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Science
- Member of the Georgian Academy of Science
- Member of the Venezuela Academy of Science
- Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Science
- Member of the Accademia dei Lincei and the Moscow Mathematical Society
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- Honorary degrees by the universities of Bonn, Warwick, Durham, St. Andrews, Dublin, Chicago, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Essex, London, Sussex, Ghent, Reading, Helsinki, Salamanca, Montreal, Wales
