Adams Prize
See also the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Society The Adams Prize is awarded each year by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and St John's College to a young, UK based mathematician for first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences. The Prize is named after the mathematician John Couch Adams and was endowed by members of St John's College. It was approved by the senate of the university in 1848, to commemorate Adam's discovery of the planet Neptune. Originally open only to Cambridge graduates the current stipulation is that the mathematician must be resident in the UK, and under 40 years of age. Each year applications are invited from mathematicians who have worked in a specific area of mathematics. As of 2004 it is worth £15,000, and the prize is awarded in three parts. The first third is paid directly to the candidate, another third to the candidate's institution to fund research expenses, and the final third is paid on publication of a survey paper in the winners field in a major mathematics journal. The prize has been awarded to many well know mathematicians including
James Clark Maxwell and Sir William Hodge. However the first female mathematician to win the prize was only in 2003 when it was awarded to Susan Howson a lecturer at Nottingham University for her work on number theory and elliptic curves.
List of prizewinners
There does not currently seem to be an official list of prize winners, and the following partial list is compiled from internet sources:1837 Sir William Hodge1859 James Clerk Maxwell1884 Joseph John Thomson1871 Isaac Todhunter1877 Edward John Routh1890s John Henry Poynting1898 Sir Joseph Larmor1911 Augustus Edward Hough Love1915 Geoffrey Ingram Taylor1917 Sir James Hopwood Jeans1927 Sir Harold Jeffreys1929 Sydney Chapman1930 Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch1947 Desmond Sawyer (approx)1948 George Keith Batchelor1952 Bernhard Neumann1958 Abdus Salam1966 Stephen Hawking (shared)1966 Roger Penrose1967 Jayant Vishnu Narlikar1971 John Raymond Willis1972 Alan Baker1973 Christopher Hooley1975 J.P. Fitch1981 Michael E. McIntyre1983 Martin J Taylor (shared)1993 Aidan Schofield (shared)1987 Brian D Ripley1992 Paul A Glendinning 2001 Sandu Popescu2002 Susan Howson2003 David Hobson2004 Dominic Joyce
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