The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details
John Griggs Thompson
Title:
Graduate Research Professor of Mathematics
Affiliation:
University of Florida
Gainesville,Florida USA
Gender:
Male
Award Discipline:
Mathematics and Computer Science
Award Year:
2000
Citation:
"For his profound and lasting contributions to the mathematical sciences, providing fundamental advances for the study of finite simple groups, the inverse Galois problem and connections between group theory and number theory."
Presented by Dr. Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for Science & Technology, at a black-tie dinner awards ceremony at the National Building Museum, Washington, DC, Friday, December 1, 2000.