{{short description|British mathematician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Susan Howson |birth_date = {{birth year and age|1973}} |alma_mater = University of Cambridge |doctoral_advisor = John H. Coates |awards = Adams Prize {{small|(2002)}} |thesis_title = Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves for ρ-Adic Lie Extensions |thesis_year = 1998 }} '''Susan Howson''' (born 1973) is a British mathematician whose research is in the fields of algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry.
==Education and career== Howson received her PhD in mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1998 with thesis title ''Iwasawa Theory of Elliptic Curves for ρ-Adic Lie Extensions'' under the supervision of John H. Coates.<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=49838}}</ref>
Howson has taught at MIT, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, and University of Nottingham.<ref name=profile/>
She then left academia and studied medicine in Southampton. After graduating she became a consultant in Child and Adolescent mental health, working in the NHS in Devon.<ref>{{Cite web |title=CAMHS spotlight interviews #5 – Dr Jenny Price interviews Dr Susan Howson |url=https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/news-and-features/blogs/detail/the-rcpsych-blog/2023/11/14/camhs-spotlight-interviews-3-dr-jenny-price-interviews-dr-susan-howson |access-date=2023-12-29 |website=www.rcpsych.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref>
==Recognition== In 2002, Howson won the Adams Prize for her work on number theory and elliptic curves. She was the first woman to win the prize in its 120-year history.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Gold|first1=Karen|title=Lecturer makes history in maths|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2002/mar/04/highereducation.educationsgendergap|accessdate=8 March 2015|work=The Guardian|date=4 March 2002}}</ref> In an interview, she indicated that the competitive and single-minded nature of higher mathematics is possibly part of what discourages women from pursuing it.<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>
She also held a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellowship.<ref name=profile>{{cite web|title=Profiles – Faculty of Mathematics – University of Cambridge|url=http://www.maths.cam.ac.uk/womeninmaths/profiles.html|accessdate=8 March 2015}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://plus.maths.org/issue19/news/prize/index.html Woman joins Adams family] March 2002
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