# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-atiyah
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:47:30.177Z

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name: "Michael Atiyah"
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description: "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 the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004."
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birthDate: "1929-04-22"
deathDate: "2019-01-11"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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