Raoul Bott
Hungarian-born mathematician · United States · On the map · Academics · Lived 1923 to 2005 · aged 82
Raoul Bott was a Hungarian-American mathematician known for numerous foundational contributions to geometry in its broad sense. He is best known for his Bott periodicity theorem, the Morse-Bott functions which he used in this context, and the Borel-Bott-Weil theorem.
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2005Died20 December 2005Foreign Member of the Royal SocietyAward2000Wolf Prize in MathematicsAward1990Leroy P. Steele PrizeAward1987National Medal of ScienceAward1976Guggenheim FellowshipAward1964Oswald Veblen Prize in GeometryAward1956Sloan FellowshipAward1923Born24 September 1923
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Lived 1923 to 2005 · aged 82
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