Sir Michael Francis Atiyah was a British-Lebanese mathematician specialising in geometry. His contributions include the AtiyahâSinger index theorem and co-founding topological K-theory. He was awarded
Michael Atiyah in 2007
Great Court of Trinity College, Cambridge, where Atiyah was a student and later Master
The Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where Atiyah was professor from 1969 to 1972
The old Mathematical Institute (now the Department of Statistics) in Oxford, where Atiyah supervised many of his students
George Porter, Baron Porter of Luddenham, was a British chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967.