Nigel Hitchin#


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 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


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