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2008: John Griggs Thompson
Graduate Research Professor, University of Florida
"for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory"
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2008: Jacques Tits
Collège de France
"for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory"