Ronald Solomon

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Ronald "Ron" Mark Solomon (born December 15, 1948) is an American mathematician who specializes in the theory of finite groups. He did his undergraduate work at Queens College and earned his PhD from Yale University in 1971 under Walter Feit; his dissertation studied finite groups with Sylow 2-subgroups similar to the alternating group on twelve letters. In 1972 he joined the classification program for finite simple groups after hearing Daniel Gorenstein speak. He was an instructor at the University of Chicago for two years, then spent the 1974–1975 academic year at Rutgers, before becoming a professor at Ohio State University, where he remains. He received the Levi L. Conant Prize in 2006 and the Leroy P. Steele Prize in 2012. He was elected a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2012. With Daniel Gorenstein and Richard Lyons he coauthored a series on the second-generation proof of the classification program for finite simple groups, and he now continues this work with Inna Capdeboscq; ten volumes have been published so far.