Michio Suzuki

Personal life
Michio Suzuki (2 October 1926-31 May 1998) was a Japanese group theorist.

Group theory
While at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Suzuki produced many notable papers:


 * 1950: The lattice of subgroups of a finite group (Japanese)
 * 1950: On finite groups with a complete partition
 * 1951: On the lattice of subgroups of a finite group
 * 1951: On the L-homomorphisms of finite groups
 * 1951: A characterization of simple groups LF(2,p)

In 1960, Suzuki came up with the first sporadic simple group other than the five Mathieu groups given in the nineteenth century. This falsified Burnside's conjecture that those five are the only sporadic simple groups.