George Lusztig

George Lusztig is a Romanian-born Hungarian-American mathematician and Abdun Nur professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was also a Norbert Wiener professor from 1999 to 2009. Born in Timișoara to a Hungarian-Jewish family, he studied at the University of Bucharest, left Romania for the United Kingdom in 1968 and moved to the United States in 1969, where he worked for two years with Michael Atiyah at the Institute for Advanced Study. He received his PhD in 1971 under William Browder and Michael Atiyah and accepted a chair at MIT in 1978.