John G. Thompson
Also known as John Griggs Thompson
American mathematician
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- Supreme Court, U.S., no. 114. Kilbourn, Plaintiff in Error vs. J.G. Thompson, J.M. Glover, J.D. New, B.B. Lewis and A.H. Smith. In Error to the Supreme Court of the District of Assault and Imprisonment, 1876
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John Griggs Thompson (born October 13, 1932) 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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1932 births20th-century American mathematiciansAbel Prize laureatesAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyFellows of Churchill College, CambridgeFields MedalistsGroup theoristsHarvard University Department of Mathematics facultyInstitute for Advanced Study visiting scholarsLiving peopleMathematicians from KansasMembers of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters