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Professor Michael Artin received his A.B. from Princeton in 1955 and both his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard in 1956 and 1960, respectively. He was advised by Oscar Zariski during his doctoral studies. Artin served as a Benjamin Peirce Lecturer at Harvard from 1960 to 1963 before joining the MIT mathematics faculty in 1963, where he became a full professor in 1966 and was appointed the Norbert Wiener Professor from 1988 to 1993. His roles at MIT included Chair of the Pure Mathematics Committee from 1982 to 1983 and Chair of the Undergraduate Committee from 1994 to 1998. Artin was President of the American Mathematical Society from 1990 to 1992 and is recognized for his work as an algebraic geometer, with a focus on non-commutative algebra. His accolades include honorary doctoral degrees from the University of Antwerp and the University of Hamburg, the Undergraduate Teaching Prize, the Educational Graduate Advising Award, and the Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement from AMS. In 2005, he was awarded the Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Centennial Medal. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of several prestigious organizations. Professor Artin received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2013 and the National Medal of Science in 2016 for his fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry and mathematics.