Background
Richard Hamilton was born in 1943, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, United States of America, in a family of a surgeon.
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Richard S. Hamilton studied at Yale University and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1963.
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In 1966 Hamilton earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Richard Hamilton was awarded the Leroy P. Steele Prize in 2009.
Richard Hamilton was awarded the Veblen Prize in 1996.
Richard S. Hamilton was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1999.
Richard S. Hamilton was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2003.
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Hamilton attended Lotspeich elementary school, where he received an excellent education.
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Richard attended Walnut Hills High School, one of the best in the nation, which was a public high school taking the brightest kids from the whole city.
Richard Hamilton was born in 1943, in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, United States of America, in a family of a surgeon.
Hamilton attended Lotspeich elementary school, where he received an excellent education. Then Richard attended Walnut Hills High School, one of the best in the nation, which was a public high school taking the brightest kids from the whole city. He studied at Yale University and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1963. In 1966 Hamilton earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University.
Richard Hamilton's first academic position was at Cornell, where for several years worked with Jim Eells Junior, who had just finished his groundbreaking paper with Joe Sampson on the harmonic map flow. This was the first example of using a nonlinear parabolic flow to solve an elliptic equation in geometry, and was Hamilton's inspiration for creating the Ricci flow.
By the mid-seventies, Richard began his work on the Ricci flow and published the first result in 1982 on the case of three-dimensional manifolds with positive Ricci curvature. This got a lot of attention, and he was invited to visit the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California the first year it opened, along with S.T. Yau and Rick Schoen. The next year Yau, Rick and I all moved to the University of San Diego, California and Gerhard Huisken came to visit also. With all these excellent mathematicians around working on similar problems in geometric analysis, it was the ideal environment to develop the Ricci flow further.
Later, Hamilton moved back to the East coast, to Columbia University, where he works now Davies Professor. He is looking at future possible developments in the Ricci flow, including possible applications to four-dimensional topology, Kaehler geometry, and stationary solutions in Relativity.
As an educator, Hamilton taught at the University of California, Irvine, University of California, San Diego, Cornell University, and Columbia University.