Editing Michael Atiyah (section)

==Awards and honours==
[[File:Royal Society 20040420.jpg|thumb|right|The premises of the [[Royal Society]], where Atiyah was president from 1990 to 1995]]
In 1966, when he was thirty-seven years old, he was awarded the [[Fields Medal]],<ref>Fields medal citation: {{citation | last = Cartan | first = Henri | author-link = Henri Cartan | chapter = L'oeuvre de Michael F. Atiyah | title = Proceedings of International Conference of Mathematicians (Moscow, 1966) | publisher = Izdatyel'stvo [[Mir]], Moscow | year = 1968 | pages = 9–14}}</ref> for his work in developing K-theory, a generalized [[Lefschetz fixed-point theorem]] and the Atiyah–Singer theorem, for which he also won the [[Abel Prize]] jointly with [[Isadore Singer]] in 2004.<ref>{{Cite web |title=2004: Sir Michael Francis Atiyah and Isadore M. Singer |url=https://abelprize.no/abel-prize-laureates/2004 |access-date=August 22, 2022 |website=www.abelprize.no}}</ref>
Among other prizes he has received are the [[Royal Medal]] of the [[Royal Society]] in 1968,<ref>{{citation|url=http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1751|title=Royal archive winners 1989–1950|access-date=14 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609135232/http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1751|archive-date=9 June 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[De Morgan Medal]] of the [[London Mathematical Society]] in 1980, the [[Antonio Feltrinelli Prize]] from the [[Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei]] in 1981, the [[King Faisal International Prize for Science]] in 1987,<ref>{{citation |url=http://www.newton.ac.uk/history/atiyah.html |title=Sir Michael Atiyah FRS |publisher=Newton institute |access-date=14 August 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080531085252/http://www.newton.ac.uk/history/atiyah.html |archive-date=31 May 2008 |url-status=live  }}</ref> the [[Copley Medal]] of the Royal Society in 1988,<ref>{{citation|url=http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1742|title=Copley archive winners 1989–1900|access-date=14 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080609135353/http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=1742|archive-date=9 June 2008|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences]] of the [[American Philosophical Society]] in 1993,<ref name="franklinscience_recipients">{{cite web |url=http://www.amphilsoc.org/prizes/franklinscience |title=Benjamin Franklin Medal for Distinguished Achievement in the Sciences Recipients |publisher=[[American Philosophical Society]] |access-date=27 November 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924060358/http://amphilsoc.org/prizes/franklinscience |archive-date=24 September 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> the Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Medal
of the [[Indian National Science Academy]] in 1993,<ref>{{citation|url=http://insaindia.org/jnbc.htm|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710163859/http://insaindia.org/jnbc.htm|archive-date=10 July 2012|title=Jawaharlal Nehru Birth Centenary Medal|access-date=14 August 2008}}</ref> the [[President's Medal of the IOP|President's Medal]] from the [[Institute of Physics]] in 2008,<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.iop.org/activity/awards/The_President's_Medal/Presidents_medal_recipients/page_29148.html |title=2008 President's medal|access-date=14 August 2008}}</ref> the [[Grande Médaille]] of the [[French Academy of Sciences]] in 2010<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.academie-sciences.fr/prix/grande_medaille.htm|title=La Grande Medaille|access-date=25 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100801084446/http://www.academie-sciences.fr/prix/grande_medaille.htm|archive-date=1 August 2010}}</ref> and the Grand Officier of the [[Legion of Honour|French Légion d'honneur]] in 2011.<ref>{{citation|url=http://www2.maths.ed.ac.uk/news/2011/legion-dhonneur-for-sir-michael-atiyah|title=Legion d'honneur|access-date=11 September 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110924053844/http://www2.maths.ed.ac.uk/news/2011/legion-dhonneur-for-sir-michael-atiyah|archive-date=24 September 2011}}</ref>

He was elected a foreign member of the [[United States National Academy of Sciences|National Academy of Sciences]], the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] (1969),<ref name=AAAS>{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=27 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510021801/http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|archive-date=10 May 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Académie des Sciences]], the [[Akademie Leopoldina]], the [[Royal Swedish Academy]], the [[Royal Irish Academy]], the [[Royal Society of Edinburgh]], the [[American Philosophical Society]], the [[Indian National Science Academy]], the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]], the [[Australian Academy of Science]], the [[Russian Academy of Science]], the [[Ukrainian Academy of Science]], the [[Georgian Academy of Science]], the [[Venezuela Academy of Science]], the [[Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters]], the [[Royal Spanish Academy of Science]], the [[Accademia dei Lincei]] and the [[Moscow Mathematical Society]].<ref name="cv1"/><ref name="cv2"/> In 2012, he became a fellow of the [[American Mathematical Society]].<ref>[https://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130805083843/http://www.ams.org/profession/fellows-list |date=5 August 2013 }}, retrieved 3 November 2012.</ref> He was also appointed as a Honorary [[Fellow]]<ref name="List of Fellows">{{cite web|title=List of Fellows|url=http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|access-date=28 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160608094405/http://www.raeng.org.uk/about-us/people-council-committees/the-fellowship/list-of-fellows|archive-date=8 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> of the [[Royal Academy of Engineering]]<ref name="List of Fellows"/> in 1993.

Atiyah was awarded honorary degrees by the universities of Birmingham, Bonn, Chicago, Cambridge, Dublin, Durham, Edinburgh, Essex, Ghent, Helsinki, Lebanon, Leicester, London, Mexico, Montreal, Oxford, Reading, Salamanca, St. Andrews, Sussex, Wales, Warwick, the American University of Beirut, Brown University, Charles University in Prague, Harvard University, Heriot–Watt University, Hong Kong (Chinese University), Keele University, Queen's University (Canada), The Open University, University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University, Technical University of Catalonia, and UMIST.<ref name="cv1"/><ref name="cv2"/><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title=Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates|last=|website=www1.hw.ac.uk|access-date=4 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418163907/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|archive-date=18 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="drhccuni">{{Citation|url=https://www.cuni.cz/UKEN-139.html|title=Honorary Doctorates|publisher=Charles University in Prague|access-date=4 May 2018}}</ref>

Atiyah was made a [[Knight Bachelor]] in 1983<ref name="cv1"/> and made a member of the [[Order of Merit (Commonwealth)|Order of Merit]] in 1992.<ref name="cv2"/>

The Michael Atiyah building<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.engg.le.ac.uk/Research_Groups/Mechanics_of_Materials_Research_Group/The_Michael_Atiyah_Building|title=The Michael Atiyah building|access-date=14 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090209061649/http://www.engg.le.ac.uk/Research_Groups/Mechanics_of_Materials_Research_Group/The_Michael_Atiyah_Building/|archive-date=9 February 2009}}</ref> at the [[University of Leicester]]
and the Michael Atiyah Chair in Mathematical Sciences<ref>{{citation|url=http://www.ameinfo.com/142298.html|title=American University of Beirut establishes the Michael Atiyah Chair in Mathematical Sciences|access-date=14 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080403090555/http://www.ameinfo.com/142298.html|archive-date=3 April 2008}}</ref> at the [[American University of Beirut]] were named after him.