John G. Thompson
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| Gender | Male |
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| Age | 92 |
| Date of birth | October 13,1932 |
| Zodiac sign | Libra |
| Born | Ottawa |
| Kansas | |
| United States | |
| Field | Group theory |
| Thesis | A Proof that a Finite Group with a Fixed-Point-Free Automorphism of Prime Order is Nilpotent (1959) |
| Academic advisor | Saunders Mac Lane |
| Awards | Fields Medal |
| Abel Prize | |
| Wolf Prize in Mathematics | |
| National Medal of Science for Mathematics and Computer Science | |
| De Morgan Medal | |
| Henri Poincaré Prize | |
| Frank Nelson Cole Prize for Algebra | |
| Thesi | A Proof that a Finite Group with a Fixed-Point-Free Automorphism of Prime Order is Nilpotent |
| Books | Ottawa, Kansas, United States |
| Notable student | Robert Griess |
| Richard Lyons | |
| Nick Patterson | |
| Charles Sims | |
| Education | Yale University |
| The University of Chicago | |
| Ottawa High School | |
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| ID | 664417 |
John G. Thompson Life story
John Griggs Thompson is an American mathematician at the University of Florida noted for his work in the field of finite groups. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1970, the Wolf Prize in 1992, and the Abel Prize in 2008.
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