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Born in Timişoara , he did his undergraduate studies at the University Of Bucharest . He left Romania for the United States , where he went to work for two years with Michael Atiyah at the Institute For Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey . His early work was on the Index Theory of Elliptic Operator s, which was the topic of his 1971 doctorate at Princeton University , under the direction of William Browder . He worked for several years at the University Of Warwick : Research Fellow, 1971-72; Lecturer in Mathematics, 1972-74; Professor of Mathematics, 1974-78. In 1978, he accepted a chair at MIT. He is best known for his work on Representation Theory , in particular for Algebraic Group s. This has included fundamental new concepts, including the Deligne-Lusztig Variety and the Kazhdan-Lusztig Polynomial s. He won the Cole Prize ( Algebra ) in 1985 . He was elected to the National Academy Of Sciences in 1992. EXTERNAL LINKS
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