# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-freedman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:46:34.066Z

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name: "Michael Freedman"
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description: "Michael Hartley Freedman is an American mathematician at Microsoft Station Q, a research group at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1986, he was awarded a Fields Medal for his work on the 4-dimensional generalized Poincaré conjecture. Freedman and Robion Kirby showed that an exotic R4 manifold exists."
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birthDate: "1951-04-21"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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