Thompson, John N., 1951-

LC control no.	n 82081532
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Thompson, John N., 1951- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Thompson, J. N. (John Norton), 1951- Thompson, John (John Norton), 1951- Thompson, John Norton, 1951- Thompson, John N. (John Norton), 1951-
Associated country	United States
Associated place	Pullman (Wash.) Santa Cruz (Calif.)
Birth date	1951-11-15
Place of birth	Pittsburgh (Pa.)
Field of activity	Evolution (Biology) Biology Plant ecology Entomology
Affiliation	University of California, Santa Cruz Trinity College (University of Cambridge) Washington State University University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Washington and Jefferson College (Washington, Washington County, Pa.)
Profession or occupation	Biologists Plant ecologists College teachers University and college faculty members
Found in	His Interaction and coevolution, 1982: CIP t.p. (John N. Thompson, Washington State Univ.) galley pref. (J.N. Thompson) BL auth. file, 17 May 2007 (hdg.: Thompson, John N.,1951-) Wikipedia, viewed Aug. 25, 2022: John N. Thompson (John Norton Thompson (b. November 15 1951 in Pittsburgh) is an American evolutionary biologist. Thompson is Jean H. Langeheim Professor of Plant Ecology and Evolution at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is known for his research on coevolution. He proposed the geographic mosaic theory of coevolution. In 1973 Thompson graduated from Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree and in 1977 received his PhD in ecology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His dissertation was entitled "Patch Dynamics in the Insect - Pastinaca sativa Association: Life History Tactics and Population Consequences." Afterwards he became Visiting Assistant Professor for Entomology. In 1978 he became Assistant Professor; 1982 Associate Professor; and 1987 Professor at Washington State University, where from 1994 he was Edward Meyer Distinguished Professor. In 1991-2 he was a Fulbright Scholar in Canberra, Australia. In 2000 he became Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was Director of the STEPS Institute for Innovation in Environmental Research from 2002 to 2007. In 2008 he became a Distinguished Professor; and in 2014 was appointed the Jean H. Langeheim Professor of Plant Ecology and Evolution. In 2014 he was a visiting fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_N._Thompsoninguished>
Associated language	eng