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 Re: جائزة نوبل و علاقة بروفيسر مايكل عطية بالسودان (Re: haneena)
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Thank you Ahmed for publishing the article here. Edward Atiyah, the father of Michael was a civil servant with the British Adminstration in Sudan for 20 years. Part of his job was to monitor the Sudanese political opposition of the British colonial presence. In plain speak, he was an intelligence officer. His command of Arabic enabled him to do so
The following matterial from the internet is self-explanatory
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The Atiyah Family
Updated for 2002
My family is a hybrid of Lebanese - Scottish extraction. My father Edward Atiyah was Lebanese. He came to England to study at Oxford University, and there met and married my mother Jean. Edward worked for 20 years in the Sudan government, among other things he started a primitive radio broadcast service there in the second world war. He settled in England in 1945 and wrote several books, including his autobiography An Arab Tells His Story, and The Thin Line, which was much later made into a film by the French director Claude Chabrol, called Juste Avant La Nuit. He also broadcast for the Arabic service of the BBC, and made some appearances on BBC TV in political comment programs (Panorama etc.).
I have two elder brothers - (Sir) Michael , and Patrick, and an elder Sister Selma.
Michael (M.F. Atiyah) is a world class mathematician, responsible for gluing together pure mathematical work in topology with theoretical particle physics. His main work covered K Theory, Index Theory, and Yang Mills Theory. He was at one time Professor of Geometry at Oxford, then resident fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, then held a Royal Society research chair, and finally was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge from where he retired in 1997. Whilst master, he was also President of the Royal Society for five years. He has been awarded numerous medals and prizes, including the Fields Gold Medal (the mathematics equivalent to the Nobel Prize), and has about twenty five honourary degrees. He is still actively involved in science and mathematics, and continues to travel the world giving lectures.
Patrick (P.S. Atiyah) was Professor of English Law at Oxford from 1977-88 when he retired. He is well known in international law circles, having worked in the Sudan, Ghana and Australia where he was Professor at Canberra, and has spent many semesters in the US. He wrote numerous books, including The Law of Contract , Accidents Compensations and The Law, and The Sale of Goods which has become a much reprinted classic work for law students.
My sister Selma studied for an MA in English at Mills College, Oakland CA, and there met and married a Law student Harvey Zall. She has two sons Clifford and Greg, and lives in Sacramento.
Compared to my illustrious brothers, my career has been somewhat subdued. I can at least claim to have earned my income in industry and contributed to the UK's export drive - I worked for 16 years for Racal Redac, (part of Racal Electronics) and helped to produce leading edge Computer Aided Design software. I personally installed the first PCB CAD system used in Digital Equipment Corp (on a PDP15 for students of computer archaeology), and in Boeing Computer Services in Seattle, along with other systems at Kongsberg Vapenfabrik in Norway, ASEA in Sweden, and SONY in Japan. The company grew from about 25 people when I joined, to over 500 with subsidiaries in US, Europe and Japan. I also spent four years working for a start up telecomms company Dellfield Digital, which alas is no more. Dellfield was a fun company, producing a small digital PABX which was advanced for its time - and competing with the likes of BT , ATT and Nortel. Unfortunately its cash outflow was always more than its inflow, and it folded. While at Dellfield, I became ill with ME (or CFS/CFIDS), which abruptly terminated my working career.
In 1977 I married my wife Beverley, who was an infant teacher (imagine, 25 four year olds). We have two lovely sons, Tom born in 1980, and Dan born 1983. Bev is now retired, but still does some supply work. Tom finished school with 2 A's and a B in A-Levels (History, Business studies and Maths), and is now the proud possessor of a 2.1 in Law from Durham University, and is trying to find an employer who will give him a decent job (but may go to law school). Dan worked hard for his 3 B's in History, Psychology and Business Studies, and is now studying History and Politics at Swansea University. Bev and I have been travelling quite a bit since she retired - Spain, Lanzarote, Slovenia, Tuscany and Egypt in 2001, and New Zealand in 2002, with a Baltic cruise and 2 weeks in Majorca yet to come.
The Atiyah clan in the UK is now too numerous to include here, but I must also mention our relatives the Attiyeh's in San Diego. ######## Attiyeh is dean of graduate studies at UCSD, and is married to Jessie. They have numerous offspring populating northern California. ########'s brother Bob Attiyeh was VP of finance for Amgen, a large US Biotech company, he also has a lot to do with the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
Sadly, Michael's eldest son John died on 24th of June 2002 while on a walking holiday in the Pyrenees with his wife Maj-Lis.
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