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Abel Prize awarded to Thompson and Tits

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By overconvergent
from the impressive prizes department
Posted Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 05:38:37 AM PDT

The Abel Prize for 2008 has been awarded to John Griggs Thompson and Jacques Tits for ``their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory''.

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The Niels Henrik Abel Memorial Fund was established on 1 January 2002, to award the Abel Prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of mathematics. The prize amount is 6 million Norwegian Kroner (about 750,000 Euro) and was awarded for the first time on 3 June 2003.

The prize is open to all areas of mathematics; the previous laureates are Jean-Pierre Serre, Michael Atiyah, Peter Lax, Lennart Carleson and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan.

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