Simon Donaldson

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Sir Simon Donaldson FRS
Donaldson in 2009
Born	Simon Kirwan Donaldson (1957-08-20) 20 August 1957 (age 66) Cambridge, England
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Pembroke College, Cambridge (BA) Worcester College, Oxford (DPhil)
Known for	Topology of smooth (differentiable) four-dimensional manifolds Donaldson theory Donaldson theorem Donaldson–Thomas theory Donaldson–Uhlenbeck–Yau theorem K-stability K-stability of Fano varieties Yau–Tian–Donaldson conjecture
Awards	Junior Whitehead Prize (1985) Fields Medal (1986) Royal Medal (1992) Crafoord Prize (1994) Pólya Prize (1999) King Faisal International Prize (2006) Nemmers Prize in Mathematics (2008) Shaw Prize in Mathematics (2009) Breakthrough Prize in Mathematics (2014) Oswald Veblen Prize (2019) Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Topology
Institutions	Imperial College London Stony Brook University Institute for Advanced Study Stanford University University of Oxford
Thesis	The Yang–Mills Equations on Kähler Manifolds (1983)
Doctoral advisor	Michael Atiyah Nigel Hitchin
Doctoral students	Oscar Garcia Prada Dominic Joyce Dieter Kotschick Graham Nelson Paul Seidel Ivan Smith Gábor Székelyhidi Richard Thomas Michael Thaddeus

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, Donaldson–Thomas theory, and his contributions to Kähler geometry. He is currently a permanent member of the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics at Stony Brook University in New York,^[1] and a Professor in Pure Mathematics at Imperial College London.