GRADUATE RESEARCH PROFESSOR JOHN THOMPSON, one of the world's
most eminent mathematicians, is the greatest Group Theorist
of the twentieth century. His numerous honors include
the Cole Prize of the American Mathematical Society (1966),
The Fields Medal (1970), The Senior Berwick Prize of the
London Mathematical Society (1982), The Sylvester Prize of
The Royal Society (1987), The Wolf Prize of Israel (1992),
The Poincare Medal of France (1992), and the National Medal
of Science (2000). He is both a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. He was Rouse 
Ball Professor at Cambridge University before joining the 
University of Florida in 1993.