- Born
- Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch , ( 1927-10-17 ) 17 October 1927, Hamm , Province of Westphalia , Germany
- Died
- 27 May 2012 (2012-05-27) (aged 84), Bonn , Germany
- Alma mater
- University of Münster ETH Zürich Institute for Advanced Study Princeton University
- Known for
- Hirzebruch–Riemann–Roch theorem Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence Hirzebruch signature theorem Hirzebruch surface Topological K-theory Characteristic classes Complex manifolds
- Awards
- Wolf Prize (1988) Lobachevsky Medal (1989) Lomonosov Gold Medal (1996) Albert Einstein Medal (1999) Cantor medal (2004) ForMemRS (1994)
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- University of Bonn Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik
- Doctoral advisor
- Heinrich Behnke Heinz Hopf
- Doctoral students
- Egbert Brieskorn Detlef Gromoll Matthias Kreck Winfried Scharlau Friedhelm Waldhausen Don Bernard Zagier Lothar Göttsche