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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.

 

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