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John Griggs Thompson, born in Ottawa on October 13, 1932, was an American mathematician and university teacher specializing in group theory. He held positions at Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Florida. Thompson earned his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago under the supervision of Saunders Mac Lane. His notable works include the Feit–Thompson theorem and the Feit–Thompson conjecture.
Thompson was a member of the Royal Society, the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received the Fields Medal, the Abel Prize, the National Medal of Science, and the title of Fellow of the Royal Society. His doctoral students included Richard Lyons, Robert Griess, David Goldschmidt, and Charles Sims.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- 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
- Forecasting industrial sales
- The law of criminal procedure in Ireland
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1948-09-21
Discography
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Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 615
- Cited by
- 127,930
Research areas
Most cited works
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age2015 · 13,115 cit
- C-Reactive Protein and Other Circulating Markers of Inflammation in the Prediction of Coronary Heart Disease2004 · 2,947 cit
- Body-mass index and all-cause mortality: individual-participant-data meta-analysis of 239 prospective studies in four continents2016 · 2,782 cit
- Diabetes Mellitus, Fasting Glucose, and Risk of Cause-Specific Death2011 · 2,735 cit
- PhenoScanner V2: an expanded tool for searching human genotype–phenotype associations2019 · 2,421 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 204,672x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 52,690x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 52,103x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,689x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,923x
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Key facts
- Doctoral students
- R. L. Griess , Richard Lyons , Charles Sims , Nick Patterson , David Goldschmidt , David Benson
- Born
- John Griggs Thompson , ( 1932-10-13 ) October 13, 1932 (age 93) , Ottawa, Kansas , U.S.
- Education
- Yale University ( BA ), University of Chicago ( MA , PhD )
- Awards
- Cole Prize (1965), Fields Medal (1970), Fellow of the Royal Society (1979), Senior Berwick Prize (1982), Sylvester Medal (1985), Wolf Prize (1992), Poincaré Medal (1992) , National Medal of Science (2000), Abel Prize (2008), De Morgan Medal (2013)
- Fields
- Group theory
- Institutions
- Harvard University (1961–62), University of Chicago (1962–68), University of Cambridge (1968–93) , University of Florida (1993–)
- Thesis
- A Proof that a Finite Group with a Fixed-Point-Free Automorphism of Prime Order is Nilpotent (1959)
- Doctoral advisor
- Saunders Mac Lane
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “John G. Thompson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.