Robert Vaughan Moody, OC FRSC is a Canadian mathematician. He is the co-discoverer of Kac–Moody algebra, a Lie algebra, usually infinite-dimensional, that can be defined through a generalized root system. Wikipedia
Born: 1941 (age 82 years), Canada
Awards: Coxeter–James Prize (1978), Jeffery–Williams Prize (1995), and CRM-Fields-PIMS prize (1998)