Nigel Hitchin
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Nigel James Hitchin FRS is a British mathematician working in the fields of differential geometry, gauge theory, algebraic geometry, and mathematical physics. He is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics
Hitchin in 2016
Michael Atiyah
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Sir Michael Francis Atiyah 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
Nigel Hitchin
…flat connection over Teichmüller space; the Atiyah–Hitchin monopole metric; the Atiyah–Hitchin–Singer theorem; the ADHM construction of instantons (of Michael Atiyah, Vladimir Drinfeld, Hitchin, and Yuri Manin); the hyperkähler quotient (of Hitchin, Anders Karlhede, Ulf Lindström and Martin Roček); Higgs bundles…
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