# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-b-r-lickorish
# Generated: 2026-08-15T10:23:01.305Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-b-r-lickorish"
name: "W. B. R. Lickorish"
slug: "w-b-r-lickorish"
description: "William Bernard Raymond Lickorish is a mathematician. He is emeritus professor of geometric topology in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge, and also an emeritus fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. His research interests include topology and knot theory. He was one of the discoverers of the HOMFLY polynomial invariant of links, and proved the Lickorish-Wallace theorem which states that all closed orientable 3-manifolds can be obtained by Dehn surgery on a link."
tagline: "Mathematician"
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country:
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birthDate: "1935-02-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           4.606012
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump