was elected to the United States National Academy of Sciences. In 1982, he 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. Thompson was awarded the United States National Medal of Science in 2000. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and a recipient of its Sylvester Medal in 1985. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. See also Feit–Thompson theorem McKay–Thompson series Quadratic pair Thompson factorization Thompson order formula Thompson subgroup Thompson transitivity theorem Thompson uniqueness theorem References External links List of mathematical articles by John G. Thompson Biography from the Abel Prize center 1932 births Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Living people People from Ottawa, Kansas Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Yale University alumni University of Chicago alumni Harvard University faculty University of Chicago faculty Rouse Ball Professors of Mathematics (Cambridge) University of Florida faculty 20th-century American mathematicians Fellows of Churchill College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Society Fields Medalists Abel Prize laureates Group theorists National Medal of Science laureates Wolf Prize in Mathematics laureates Members of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters Mathematicians from Kansas