Born on August 12, 1930, in Uccle, Belgium, Jacques Tits was a mathematician whose work focused on geometry, algebra, and group theory.
Jacques Tits passed away on December 5, 2021.
Education and Professional Career
- 1948–1956: Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research
- 1956–1962: Teaching assistant, then lecturer at the University of Brussels
- 1962–1964: Professor at the University of Brussels
- 1964–1974: Professor at the University of Bonn
- 1973–2000: Professor at the Collège de France, holder of the Chair of Group Theory
- 1980–1999: Editor-in-Chief of the Publications Mathématiques de l’I.H.E.S.
- Member of the review committee for the *Comptes rendus de l’Académie*
Awards and Honors
- 1955: L. Empain Interfaculty Scientific Prize
- 1958: Wettrems Prize from the Belgian Academy
- 1965: Belgian Government Decennial Prize in Mathematics
- 1976: Grand Prize in Mathematical and Physical Sciences from the Academy of Sciences
- 1977: Member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
- 1979: Honorary Doctorate from Ghent University
- 1979: Member of the Academy of Sciences
- 1988: Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1988: Founding member of the Academia Europaea
- 1988: Honorary doctorate from the University of Bonn
- 1991: Foreign Associate of the Royal Academy of Belgium
- 1992: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Leuven
- 1992: Foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1992: Foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States
- 1993: Honorary member of the London Mathematical Society
- 1993: Commander of the Order of Academic Palms
- 1993: Wolf Prize in Mathematics
- 1995: Member of the Order “for Merit” in Science and the Arts (FRG)
- 1995: Knight of the Legion of Honor
- 2001: Officer of the National Order of Merit
- 2008: Abel Prize