Michael R. Douglas
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Michael R. Douglas (born November 19, 1961)
Biography
Douglas was born in
After completing his PhD, Douglas was a postdoc at the
Douglas is best known for the development of
Douglas received the 2000 Sackler Prize in theoretical physics and has been a Gordon Moore Visiting Scholar at Caltech and a Clay Mathematics Institute Mathematical Emissary. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3] He has a long association with the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, as a Louis Michel Visiting Professor from 2000 to 2008, and as chairman and President of the Friends of IHES from 2013 to 2021.
Douglas is married and has two children. His wife, Nina Ilieva Douglas, is an artist. Her sculpture of Alexander Grothendieck is on permanent display at the IHES.
Notes
- ^ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 & 2 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
- ^ Marquis Who's Who in America, 68th ed. (Marquis Who's Who LLC, Berkeley Heights, NJ, 2013).
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.