Raoul Bott

Raoul Bott
Raoul Bott in 1986
Born	(1923-09-24)September 24, 1923 Budapest, Hungary
Died	December 20, 2005(2005-12-20) (aged 82) San Diego, California, U.S.
Nationality	Hungarian American
Alma mater	McGill University Carnegie Mellon University
Known for	Bott cannibalistic class Bott periodicity theorem Bott residue formula Bott–Duffin synthesis Bott–Samelson resolution Bott–Taubes polytope Bott–Virasoro group Atiyah–Bott formula Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem Borel–Weil–Bott theorem Morse–Bott theory
Awards	Veblen Prize (1964) Jeffery–Williams Prize (1983) National Medal of Science (1987) Steele Prize (1990) Wolf Prize (2000) ForMemRS (2005)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Michigan in Ann Arbor Harvard University
Doctoral advisor	Richard Duffin
Doctoral students	Edward B. Curtis Harold Edwards Nancy Hingston Peter Landweber Robert MacPherson Daniel Quillen Stephen Smale Susan Tolman Eric Weinstein

Raoul Bott (September 24, 1923 – December 20, 2005)^[1] 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.