George Lusztig

George Lusztig
Born (1946-05-20) May 20, 1946 (age 78)
CitizenshipRomanian, British, American
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest (BSc)
Princeton University (PhD)
AwardsBerwick Prize (1977)
Cole Prize (1985)
Leroy P. Steele Prize (2008)
Shaw Prize (2014)
Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2022)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Warwick
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Doctoral advisorMichael Atiyah
William Browder
Doctoral studentsCorrado de Concini
Ian Grojnowski
Xuhua He

George Lusztig (born Gheorghe Lusztig; May 20, 1946) is a Romanian-born American mathematician and Abdun Nur Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was a Norbert Wiener Professor in the Department of Mathematics from 1999 to 2009.