Sir Simon Donaldson

Sir Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS (born 20 August 1957) is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds and Donaldson–Thomas theory. He is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University and a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London.

Awards and honours

• 1985 - Junior Whitehead Prize from the London Mathematical Society
• 1986 - elected a Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1986 - Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Berkeley.
• 2006 - King Faisal International Prize for science
• 2008 - Nemmers Prize in Mathematics, awarded by Northwestern University.
• 2009 - Shaw Prize in Mathematics (jointly with Clifford Taubes)
• 2010 - elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
• 2012 - knighted in the New Year Honours for services to mathematics.
• 2012 - fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
• 2014 - "Docteur Honoris Causa" by Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble.
• 2014 - Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics
• 2017 - "Doctor Honoris Causa" by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
• 2019 - Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (jointly with Xiuxiong Chen and Song Sun).
• 2020 - Wolf Prize in Mathematics (jointly with Yakov Eliashberg).