Won De Morgan Medal (2013).
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John G. Thompson
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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Born 13 October 1932 · Q313168
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2008· 1 entry
Awarded Abel Prize (2008).
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2007· 1 entry
Published “Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0” in Bioinformatics — cited 25,004 times.
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2003· 1 entry
Published “Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses” in BMJ — cited 52,835 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Published “Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis” in Statistics in Medicine — cited 32,151 times.
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2000· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (2000).
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1997· 1 entry
Published “The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 31,749 times.
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1994· 1 entry
Published “CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice” in Nucleic Acids Research — cited 52,135 times.
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1992· 3 entries
Awarded Henri Poincaré Prize (1992).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (1992).
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Was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics
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1985· 1 entry
Won Sylvester Medal (1985).
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1982· 2 entries
Awarded Senior Berwick Prize (1982).
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Was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize of the London Mathematical Society, and, in 1988, he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Science from the University of Oxford
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1979).
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1971· 2 entries
Career landmark: Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics (1971–1993).
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Thompson was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences
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1970· 4 entries
Won Fields medal (1970).
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The Wolf Prize in 1992, and the Abel Prize in 2008
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To take up the Rouse Ball Professorship in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and later moved to the Mathematics Department of the University of Florida as a Graduate Research Professor
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(Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Nice, France, 1970)
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Cole Prize in Algebra (1965).
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1963· 1 entry
And Walter Feit proved that all nonabelian finite simple groups are of even order (the Odd Order Paper, filling a whole issue of the Pacific Journal of Mathematics)
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1959· 1 entry
Studied at University of Chicago (1955–1959).
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1955· 2 entries
Studied at Yale University (1955).
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And his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1959 under the supervision of Saunders Mac Lane
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-10-13.
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