John G. Thompson
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1932-10-13
- 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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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Generalized Gradient Approximation Made Simple
· 1996 · cited 199,603x
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 51,798x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,629x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 41,243x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,227x
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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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Key dates
- Born
- 13 October 1932
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Thompson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Ottawa
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of Florida
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Saunders Mac Lane
- Field of work
- mathematics
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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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