# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robion-kirby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:48:49.765Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robion-kirby"
name: "Robion Kirby"
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description: "Robion Cromwell Kirby is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley who specializes in low-dimensional topology. Together with Laurent C. Siebenmann he developed the Kirby–Siebenmann invariant for classifying the piecewise linear structures on a topological manifold. He also proved the fundamental result on the Kirby calculus, a method for describing 3-manifolds and smooth 4-manifolds by surgery on framed links. Along with his significant mathematical contributions, he has over 50 doctoral students and is the editor of an influential problem list."
tagline: "American mathematician"
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birthDate: "1938-02-25"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump