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IN 1970

  • UF hired its first black faculty and staff. The small group of eight included English professors Ronald C. Foreman and Betty Ingram.

 

  • Mathematics Professor John Thompson won the Fields Medal, the highest prize for mathematics, equivalent to the prestigious Nobel Prize. In 2001, Thompson was awarded the highest honor bestowed upon a scientist by the US government, the National Medal of Science, by President Bill Clinton.
a man sitting at a desk indoors.
John Thompson