What is Michael Atiyah?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = Sir Michael Atiyah | honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|OM|FRS|FRSE|FMedSci|FAA|FREng}} | birth_name = Michael Francis Atiyah | image = Michael Francis Atiyah.jpg | caption = Michael Atiyah in 2007 | birth_date = {{birth date|1929|04|22|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Hampstead]], [[London]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|2019|1|11|1929|4|22|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Edinburgh]], [[Scotland]] | nationality = British | module= {{Infobox scientist | embed=yes | doctoral_advisor = [[W. V. D. Hodge]] | doctoral_students = {{Plainlist| * [[Simon Donaldson]] * [[K. David Elworthy]] * [[Nigel Hitchin]]<ref>{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|title=Differentiable manifolds : the space of harmonic spinors|first=Nigel J.|last=Hitchin|date=1972|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph020603382|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.459281}}|via=bodleian.ox.ac.uk|oclc=500473357}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> * [[Lisa Jeffrey]] * [[Frances Kirwan]] * [[Peter Kronheimer]] * [[Ruth Lawrence]] * [[George Lusztig]] * [[Ian R. Porteous]] * [[Graeme Segal]] * [[David O. Tall]]}} | notable_students = [[Edward Witten]] | thesis_title = Some Applications of Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry | thesis_url = https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251002 | thesis_year = 1955 | work_institutions = {{Plainlist| * [[University of Oxford]] - [[New College, Oxford]] and [[St Catherine's College, Oxford]] * [[Institute for Advanced Study]] * [[University of Leicester]] * [[University of Edinburgh]] * [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]] }} | education = {{Plainlist| * [[Victoria College, Alexandria]] * [[Manchester Grammar School]] }} | alma_mater = [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] (BA, PhD)}} | known_for = [[Atiyah–Singer index theorem]]<br>[[Atiyah–Segal completion theorem]] | awards = {{Plainlist| * [[Berwick Prize]] (1961) * [[Fields Medal]] (1966) * [[Royal Medal]] (1968) * [[De Morgan Medal]] (1980) * [[Co