Simon Donaldson

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
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gptkb:Royal_Medal
gptkb:mathematics
gptkb:Crafoord_Prize
gptkb:King_Faisal_International_Prize
gptkb:Breakthrough_Prize_in_Mathematics
gptkbp:birthDate 1957-08-20
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Cambridge,_England
gptkbp:category gptkb:Alumni_of_Pembroke_College,_Cambridge
gptkb:Fellows_of_the_Royal_Society
gptkb:Fields_Medalists
British mathematicians
gptkbp:doctoralAdvisor gptkb:Michael_Atiyah
gptkbp:employer gptkb:Imperial_College_London
gptkb:Stony_Brook_University
gptkbp:field gptkb:gauge_theory
gptkb:mathematics
gptkb:topology
differential geometry
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:Simon_Kirwan_Donaldson
gptkbp:honorificPrefix gptkb:FRS
gptkb:FRSE
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Simon Donaldson
gptkbp:knownFor gptkb:Donaldson's_theorem
gptkb:Donaldson–Thomas_theory
gptkb:Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau_theorem
gptkb:Donaldson_invariants
work on 4-manifolds
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Academia_Europaea
gptkb:American_Mathematical_Society
gptkb:National_Academy_of_Sciences
gptkb:Royal_Society
gptkbp:nationality British
gptkbp:notableStudent gptkb:Ivan_Smith
gptkb:Joel_Fine
gptkb:Mark_Haskins
gptkb:Thomas_Walpuski
gptkb:Yann_Rollin
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:mathematician
gptkbp:position gptkb:professor
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Joanna_Donaldson
gptkbp:thesisTitle The Yang-Mills equations on Kähler manifolds
gptkbp:thesisYear 1983
gptkbp:website https://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/s.donaldson
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