the journal Mathematische Annalen. Honours and awards In 1991 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 2003 he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) from the University of Bath. Hitchin was elected as an Honorary Fellow of Jesus College in 1998, and the Senior Berwick Prize (1990), the Sylvester Medal (2000) and the Pólya Prize (2002) have been awarded to him in honour of his far-reaching work. A conference was held in honour of his 60th birthday, in conjunction with the 2006 International Congress of Mathematicians in Spain. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. In 2014 he was awarded another Honorary Degree (Doctor of Science) from the University of Warwick. In 2016 he received the Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences. References External links His home page at the University of Oxford 1946 births Living people People from Holbrook, Derbyshire 20th-century English mathematicians 21st-century English mathematicians Differential geometers Alumni of Jesus College, Oxford Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford Savilian Professors of Geometry Whitehead Prize winners Fellows of New College, Oxford Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Rouse Ball Professors of Mathematics (Cambridge) Academics of the University of Warwick