Richard Thomas (mathematician)
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Richard Thomas is a Professor of Mathematics at Imperial College London
working in several areas of geometry
.
He obtained his PhD on gauge theory
on Calabi–Yau manifolds in 1997 under the supervision of Simon Donaldson
.
In 2004, he was awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize
and the Philip Leverhulme Prize
, in 2010 the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
.
Imperial College London
Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
working in several areas of geometry
Geometry
Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....
.
He obtained his PhD on gauge theory
Gauge theory
In physics, gauge invariance is the property of a field theory in which different configurations of the underlying fundamental but unobservable fields result in identical observable quantities. A theory with such a property is called a gauge theory...
on Calabi–Yau manifolds in 1997 under the supervision of Simon Donaldson
Simon Donaldson
Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS , is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth four-dimensional manifolds. He is now Royal Society research professor in Pure Mathematics and President of the Institute for Mathematical Science at Imperial College London...
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In 2004, he was awarded the LMS Whitehead Prize
Whitehead Prize
The Whitehead Prize is awarded yearly by the London Mathematical Society to a mathematician working in the United Kingdom who is at an early stage of their career. The prize is named in memory of homotopy theory pioneer J. H. C...
and the Philip Leverhulme Prize
Philip Leverhulme Prize
The Philip Leverhulme Prize, awarded by the Leverhulme Trust, is to recognise outstanding young scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study, recognised at an international level, and where the expectation is that their greatest achievement is...
, in 2010 the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award
The Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award is an award to outstanding scientists holding posts at UK universities. It is administered by the Royal Society and jointly funded by the Wolfson Foundation and the UK Office of Science and Technology, this scheme aims to give universities additional...
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External links
- http://www2.imperial.ac.uk/~rpwt/
- http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=93812
- http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/mathematics/about/prizesandawards