Phillip Alan Griffith (born December 29, 1940) is a mathematician and

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

who works on commutative algebra and ring theory. He received his PhD from the

University of Houston The University of Houston (UH) is a public research university in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1927, UH is a member of the University of Houston System and the university in Texas with over 47,000 students. Its campus, which is primarily in s ...

in 1968. Griffith is the

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of the ''

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'' In 1971, Griffith received a

Sloan Fellowship The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars". This program is one of the oldest of its kind in the United States. ...

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20th-century American mathematicians Living people University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty 1940 births University of Houston alumni 21st-century American mathematicians {{US-mathematician-stub