Editing Michael Atiyah (section)

==Early life and education==
[[File:TrinityCollegeCamGreatCourt.jpg|thumb|right|[[Trinity Great Court|Great Court]] of [[Trinity College, Cambridge]], where Atiyah was a student and later [[Master of Trinity College, Cambridge|Master]]]]
Atiyah was born on 22 April 1929 in [[Hampstead]], [[London]], England, the son of Jean (née Levens) and [[Edward Atiyah]].<ref name="whoswho">{{Who's Who | title=ATIYAH, Sir Michael (Francis) | id = U5927 | volume = 2014 | edition = online edition via [[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> His mother was Scottish and his father was a Lebanese [[Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Lebanon|Orthodox Christian]]. He had two brothers, [[Patrick Atiyah|Patrick]] (deceased) and Joe, and a sister, Selma (deceased).<ref name="ja">{{citation|first=Joe|last=Atiyah|url=http://www.atiyah.plus.com/family.htm|title= The Atiyah Family |access-date= 14 August 2008 |year=2007 |ref=none}}</ref> Atiyah went to primary school at the Diocesan school in [[Khartoum]], Sudan (1934–1941), and to secondary school at [[Victoria College, Alexandria|Victoria College]] in [[Cairo]] and [[Alexandria]] (1941–1945); the school was also attended by [[European nobility]] displaced by the [[Second World War]] and some future leaders of Arab nations.<ref>{{citation|last=Raafat|first= Samir |url=http://www.egy.com/victoria/96-03-30.shtml |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080416003613/http://www.egy.com/victoria/96-03-30.shtml |archive-date= 16 April 2008 |title=Victoria College: educating the elite, 1902−1956|access-date=14 August 2008}}</ref> He returned to England and [[Manchester Grammar School]] for his [[Higher School Certificate (UK)|HSC]] studies (1945–1947) and did his [[National Service in the United Kingdom|national service]] with the [[Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers]] (1947–1949). His [[undergraduate]] and [[postgraduate]] studies took place at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] (1949–1955).<ref name="cv1">{{harvnb|Atiyah|1988a|p=xi}}</ref> He was a [[doctoral]] student of [[William V. D. Hodge]]<ref name="genealogy"/> and was awarded a doctorate in 1955 for a thesis entitled ''Some Applications of Topological Methods in Algebraic Geometry''.<ref name=aphd>{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|first=Michael Francis|last=Atiyah|year=1955|url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251002|website=repository.cam.ac.uk|publisher=University of Cambridge|title=Some applications of topological methods in algebraic geometry|access-date=17 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118223928/https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251002|archive-date=18 November 2017|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=genealogy/>

Atiyah was a member of the [[British Humanist Association]].<ref>[https://humanists.uk/about/our-people/recent-humanist-obituaries "Distinguished mathematician and supporter of Humanism."]</ref>

During his time at Cambridge, he was president of [[The Archimedeans]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://the-archimedeans.org.uk/committees/archimedeans/presidents.txt|title=[Presidents Archimedeans]|website=Archimedeans: Previous Committees and Officers|access-date=2019-04-10|archive-date=26 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190826044453/https://the-archimedeans.org.uk/committees/archimedeans/presidents.txt}}</ref>