John G. Thompson
American mathematician
John Griggs Thompson (born October 13, 1932) is an American mathematician. He works at the University of Florida. He is known for his work in the field of finite groups. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970, the Wolf Prize in 1992 and the 2008 Abel Prize.
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 John Thompson in 2007 | |
| Born | October 13, 1932 Ottawa, Kansas, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University (B.A. 1955) University of Chicago (Ph.D. 1959) |
| Awards | Cole Prize (1965) Fields Medal (1970) Fellow of the Royal Society (1979) Senior Berwick Prize (1982) Sylvester Medal (1985) Wolf Prize (1992) Médaille Poincaré (1992)[1][2] National Medal of Science (2000) Abel Prize (2008) De Morgan Medal (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Group theory |
| Institutions | Harvard University (1961–62) University of Chicago (1962–68) University of Cambridge (1968–93) University of Florida (1993–present) |
| Thesis | A Proof that a Finite Group with a Fixed-Point-Free Automorphism of Prime Order is Nilpotent (1959) |
| Doctoral advisor | Saunders Mac Lane |
| Doctoral students | R. L. Griess Richard Lyons Charles Sims |
References
change- ↑ Thompson, John Griggs — serge.mehl.free.fr
- ↑ Liste des 122 fondations Archived 2014-10-06 at the Wayback Machine. The médaille Poincaré awarded by the French Academy of Sciences was eliminated in 1997 in favor of the Grande Médaille.
Other websites
change- List of mathematical articles by John G. Thompson
- Biography from the Abel Prize center Archived 2016-06-11 at the Wayback Machine
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