Adams Prize

The '''Adams Prize''' is a prize<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/adams-prize-2002-3-winner-announced/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023125424/http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/adams-prize-2002-3-winner-announced/ |archive-date=23 October 2014 |title=Adams Prize 2002/3 winner announced – Cambridge Network}}</ref> awarded each year by the Faculty of Mathematics at St John's College to a UK-based mathematician for distinguished research in mathematical sciences.

The prize is named after the mathematician John Couch Adams and was endowed by members of St John's College and approved by the senate of the university in 1848, to commemorate Adams' role in the discovery of the planet Neptune. Originally open only to Cambridge graduates, the current stipulation is that the mathematician must reside in the UK and be under forty years of age.<ref name="2012a">{{Cite web|url=http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/4.html|title=Applications for Adams Prize 2012–13|date=23 February 2012|access-date=28 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141019231957/http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/4.html|archive-date=19 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The Adams Prize is awarded in three parts: the first is paid directly to the candidate; another third is paid to the candidate's institution to fund research expenses; and the final third is paid on publication of a survey paper in the winner's field in a major mathematics journal.

The prize has been awarded to many well-known mathematicians, including James Clerk Maxwell and Sir William Hodge. The first female recipient, in 2002, was Susan Howson, then a lecturer at the University of Nottingham, for her work on number theory and elliptic curves.

==Subject area== * 2015–16: Applied analysis<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/applications-adams-prize-2015-2016|title=Applications for Adams Prize 2015–2016|access-date=24 February 2016|archive-date=8 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508023901/http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/applications-adams-prize-2015-2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2016–17: Statistical analysis of big data<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/applications-adams-prize-2016-17|title=Applications for Adams Prize 2016–17 }}</ref> * 2017–18: The mathematics of astronomy and cosmology<ref name=Adams1718>{{cite web|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize/winners-2017-18-announced|title=Adams prize winners 2017–18 announced|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date= 6 September 2018}}</ref> * 2018–19: The mathematics of networks<ref name=Adams1819>{{cite web|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize|title=Adams prize2019|publisher=University of Cambridge|access-date= 19 September 2018}}</ref>

==Partial list of prize winners== The complete list of prize winners can be found on the Adams Prize webpage, on the University of Cambridge website. The following partial list is compiled from internet sources:

{{columns-list|colwidth=30em| * 1850 Robert Peirson * 1857 James Clerk Maxwell, "on the stability of the motion of Saturn's rings"<ref>{{cite book|title=Cambridge Scientific Minds|first= Peter|last= Harman|page=138}}</ref> * 1865 Edward Walker * 1871 Isaac Todhunter * 1877 Edward Routh * 1883 J. J. Thomson * 1893 John Henry Poynting * 1899 Joseph Larmor and Gilbert Walker * 1901 Hector Munro MacDonald * 1907 Ernest William Brown * 1909 George Adolphus Schott * 1911 A. E. H. Love, "on some problems of geodynamics"<ref>{{cite book|title=I Died for Beauty: Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science|first=Marjorie|last= Senechal}}</ref> * 1913 Samuel McLaren and John William Nicholson * 1915 Geoffrey Ingram Taylor, "on the turbulent motion in fluids" * 1917 James Hopwood Jeans, "on the course of configurations possible for a rotating and gravitating fluid mass"<ref>{{cite book|title=The Cambridge Companion to Einstein, Volume 1|first= Michel|last= Jannsen|page=262}}</ref> * 1919 John William Nicholson * 1921 William Mitchinson Hicks * 1922 Joseph Proudman * 1924 Ralph H. Fowler * 1926 Harold Jeffreys * 1928 Sydney Chapman * 1930 Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch * 1932 Alan Herries Wilson * 1934 Sydney Goldstein * 1936 W. V. D. Hodge * 1940 Harold Davenport * 1942 Homi J. Bhabha * 1947 Desmond B. Sawyer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/home/department/history/history.php |title=Permanent Academic Staff 1870 to the present |publisher=The Mathematics Department at the University of Otago |access-date=20 May 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130521123114/http://www.maths.otago.ac.nz/home/department/history/history.php |archive-date=21 May 2013 }}</ref> * 1948 John Charles Burkill, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Walter Hayman, and John Macnaghten Whittaker * 1950 George Batchelor, William Reginald Dean, and Leslie Howarth * 1952 Bernhard Neumann * 1955 Harold Gordon Eggleston * 1958 Paul Taunton Matthews, Abdus Salam, and John G. Taylor * 1960 V. S. Huzurbazar and Walter L. Smith * 1962 John Robert Ringrose * 1964 James G. Oldroyd and Owen Martin Phillips<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1017/S0022112010006415 | volume = 669 | pages = 1–2 | last = Turner | first = S. | title = Professor Owen Martin Phillips. 30 December 1930–12 October 2010 | journal = Journal of Fluid Mechanics | year = 2011 | bibcode = 2011JFM...669....1T | doi-access = free }}</ref> * 1966 Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose<ref>{{cite book | title = Stephen Hawking: a biography | last = Larsen | first = Kristine | publisher = Greenwood Publishing Group | year = 2005 | isbn = 0-313-32392-5 | pages = xiv }}</ref> * 1967 Jayant Narlikar<ref>{{cite book | title = Jawaharlal Nehru memorial lectures, 1973-1979 | last = Mead | first = Margaret | publisher = Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan | year = 1980 | page = 157 }}</ref> * 1970 Robert Burridge, Leslie John Walpole, and John Raymond Willis * 1972 Alan Baker, Christopher Hooley, and Hugh Lowell Montgomery * 1974 John Fitch and David Barton * 1976 Tim Pedley * 1978 Alistair Mees * 1980 Michael E. McIntyre and Brian Leslie Norman Kennett<ref>{{cite web | url = http://rses.anu.edu.au/~brian/academ.html#award | title = B. L. N. Kennett's CV | access-date = 20 May 2009 | archive-date = 18 April 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210418014355/http://rses.anu.edu.au/~brian/academ.html#award | url-status = dead }}</ref> * 1982 Dan Segal, Martin J. Taylor, Gordon James, Steve Donkin, and Aidan Schofield * 1984 Bernard J. Carr<ref>{{cite book|title=Universe Or Multiverse?|first= Bernard|last=Carr}}</ref> * 1986 Brian D. Ripley * 1992 Paul Glendinning * 2001 Sandu Popescu<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.quiprocone.org/newsarchive.htm#sandu | title = Sandu Popescu wins Adams Prize 2001 | publisher = Quiprocone | year = 2001 | access-date = 20 May 2009 }}</ref> * 2002 Susan Howson, "for her research on number theory and elliptic curves"<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2002_10_fri_04.shtml | title = Dr Susan Howson on Woman's Hour | publisher = BBC Radio 4 | date = 8 March 2002 | access-date = 20 May 2009}}</ref> * 2003 David Hobson<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/staff/academic/hobson/|title=Professor David Hobson|publisher=Warwick Department of Statistics|access-date=22 July 2009}}</ref> * 2004 Dominic Joyce<ref>{{cite web|title=Dominic Joyce awarded Adams Prize |url=http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/1907 |publisher=Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford |date=22 July 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609181042/http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/1907 |archive-date=9 June 2011 }}</ref> * 2005 Mihalis Dafermos and David Stuart * 2006 Jonathan Sherratt * 2007 Paul Fearnhead * 2008 Tom Bridgeland and David Tong<ref>[http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/cam-only/reporter/2007-08/weekly/6108/1.html Awards] Cambridge University Reporter 23 April 2008</ref> * 2009 Raphaël Rouquier "for contributions to representation theory"<ref name="2009w">{{Cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2009033101|title='Representation Theory' work wins 2009 Adams Prize|date=31 March 2009|access-date=31 March 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401072639/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2009033101|archive-date=1 April 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2010 Jacques Vanneste<ref name="2010w">{{Cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010022602|title='Fluid Mechanics' work wins 2010 Adams Prize|date=26 February 2010|access-date=26 February 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100305090629/http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010022602|archive-date=5 March 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2011 Harald Helfgott and Tom Sanders<ref>{{cite journal|last=(reprinted from a University of Cambridge announcement)|title=Helfgott and Sanders Awarded Adams Prize|journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|publisher=AMS|volume=58|issue=7|page=966|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/201107/rtx110700966p.pdf}}</ref> * 2012 Sheehan Olver and Françoise Tisseur "for contributions to computational mathematics"<ref name="2012w">{{Cite web|url=http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/3.html |title=Adams Prize winners 2011–12 announced |access-date=24 February 2012 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320125115/http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/news/3.html |archive-date=20 March 2012 }} ().</ref> * 2013 Ivan Smith * 2014 ''not awarded'' * 2015 Arend Bayer and Thomas Coates<ref>{{cite web|title=Adams Prize winners 2014–15 announced|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize-winners-2014-15-announced|website=www.maths.cam.ac.uk|access-date=28 March 2017|date=23 September 2015|archive-date=20 July 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720061159/http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize-winners-2014-15-announced|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2016 Clément Mouhot<ref>{{cite web|title=Adams Prize winner 2015–16 announced|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize-winner-2015-16-announced|website=www.maths.cam.ac.uk|access-date=28 March 2017|date=24 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029065854/https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize-winner-2015-16-announced|archive-date=29 October 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> * 2017 Graham Cormode and Richard Samworth<ref>{{cite web|title=Graham Cormode awarded 2017 Adams Prize|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/news/?newsItem=8a17841b5ad8bdb7015b0c90d7830985|website=Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick|access-date=28 March 2017|date=26 March 2017}}</ref> * 2018 Claudia de Rham and Gustav Holzegel, both of Imperial College London.<ref name= Adams1718/> * 2019 Heather Harrington (University of Oxford) and Luitgard Veraart (LSE)<ref name=Adams1819/> * 2020 Konstantin Ardakov (University of Oxford) and Michael Wemyss (University of Glasgow)<ref>{{cite web|title=Adams Prize Winners 2019–20 Announced|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize/adams-prize-winners-2019-20-announced|website=www.maths.cam.ac.uk|access-date=20 March 2020}}</ref> * 2021 Mahir Hadžić and Jeffrey Galkowski, both of University College London.<ref>{{cite web|title=Adams Prize Winners 2020–2021 Announced|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize/adams-prize-winners-2020-21-announced|website=www.maths.cam.ac.uk|access-date=28 July 2021}}</ref> * 2022 Jack Thorne<ref>{{cite web|title=Adams Prize Winner 2021–22|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize/adams-prize-winner-2021-22|website=www.maths.cam.ac.uk|access-date=25 March 2022}}</ref> * 2023 Anne Cori (Imperial College London) and Adam Kucharski (LSHTM)<ref>{{cite web|title=Adams Prize Winner 2022–23|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize/adams-prize-winner-2022-23|access-date=13 March 2023}}</ref> * 2024 Soheyla Feyzbakhsh (Imperial College London) and Nick Sheridan (University of Edinburgh)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/internal/faculty/adams-prize-winner-2023-24|title=Adams Prize Winner 2023-24|publisher=University of Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics|access-date=29 June 2024}}</ref> * 2025 Theo Assiotis (University of Edinburgh) and Giuseppe Cannizzaro (University of Warwick)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/internal/faculty/adams-prize-winner-2024-25|title=Adams Prize Winner 2024-25|publisher=University of Cambridge Faculty of Mathematics|access-date=30 April 2025}}</ref> }}

==See also== * List of mathematics awards

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{official website|maths.cam.ac.uk/adams-prize}}

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