Isadore Singer

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**Isadore Singer**

Born	1924 Detroit, Michigan
Institution	MIT
Alma mater	Michigan Chicago
Known for	Atiyah-Singer index theorem
Notable prizes	Bôcher Memorial Prize (1969) National Medal of Science (1983) Eugene Wigner Medal (1988) Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2000) Abel Prize (2004) James Rhyne Killian Faculty Achievement Award (2005)

This article is not about the editor of the Jewish Encyclopedia, Isidore Singer.

Isadore Manual Singer (born 1924) is an Institute Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is noted for work with Michael Atiyah on the Atiyah–Singer index theorem.

He was born in Detroit, and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1944. After obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1950, he went to MIT, where he has spent nearly all his career.

Singer is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the awards he has received are the Bôcher Memorial Prize (1969) and the Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2000), both from the American Mathematical Society, the Eugene Wigner Medal (1988), the National Medal of Science (1983), the Abel Prize (2004, shared with Michael Atiyah), and the James Rhyne Killian Faculty Achievement Award from MIT (2005).