Awards & Winners

Raoul Bott

Date of Birth 24-September-1923
Place of Birth Budapest
(Hungary, Central Hungary)
Nationality Hungary, United States of America, Slovakia, Canada
Profession Mathematician
Raoul Bott, ForMemRS was a Hungarian mathematician known for numerous basic 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.

Awards by Raoul Bott

Check all the awards nominated and won by Raoul Bott.

2000


Wolf Prize in Mathematics
(For his deep discoveries in topology and differential geometry and their applications to Lie groups, differential operators and mathematical physics.)

1987


National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science
(In recognition of his profound studies in the topology of Lie groups and differential geometry over many decades, and in particular for his 'periodicity theorem'.)