Nigel Hitchin#
Membership Number: | 1400 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | MATHEMATICS |
Elected: | 1993 |
Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
Homepage(s): | http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/hitchin |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1997 - 2016 Savilian Professor of Geometry, Oxford University
- 1994 - 1997 Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics, Cambridge University
- 1990 - 1994 Professor of Mathematics, University of Warwick
- 1979 - 1990 Fellow and Tutor in Mathematics St Catherine's College, Oxford
- 1977 - 1979 SRC Advanced Research Fellow, Oxford University
- 1974 - 1977 SRC Research Assistant, Oxford University
- 1973 - 1974 Courant Institute Instructor, New York University
- 1971 - 1973 Research Assistant, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
- 1972 DPhil Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Differential geometry
- Algebraic geometry
Honours and Awards
- 1981 London Mathematical Society Junior Whitehead Prize
- 1990 London Mathematical Society Senior Berwick Prize
- 1991 Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1998 Honorary Fellow, Jesus College, Oxford
- 2000 Sylvester Medal of the Royal Society
- 2002 London Mathematical Society Polya Prize
- 2003 Honorary DSc University of Bath
- 2008 Honorary Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- 2014 Honorary DSc University of Warwick
- 2014 Honorary Fellow, St Catherine’s College, Oxford
- 2016 Shawn Prize in Mathematical Sciences