page_title: Robert Griess
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caption_attribution_description: English: Robert L. Griess, Oberwolfach 2005
context_page_description: Robert Louis Griess, Jr. is a mathematician working on finite simple groups and vertex algebras. Currently, Griess is a professor of mathematics at University of Michigan.
  He constructed the monster group using the Griess algebra.
  He received the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research in 2010. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
context_section_description: Robert Louis Griess, Jr. (born 1945, Savannah, Georgia) is a mathematician working on finite simple groups and vertex algebras. Currently, Griess is a professor of mathematics at University of Michigan.
  He constructed the monster group using the Griess algebra.
  He received  the AMS Leroy P. Steele Prize for a Seminal Contribution to Research in 2010. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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