Adams Prize Overview
The Adams Prize is a prestigious award in mathematics, primarily associated with the University of Cambridge in the UK. It is awarded annually by the Faculty of Mathematics at St John's College for distinguished research in mathematical sciences. The prize is named after mathematician John Couch Adams, known for his role in discovering the planet Neptune.
Adams Prize Winners List (1850-2025)
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2025 | Dr Giuseppe Cannizzaro | University of Warwick | |
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Mathematics of Statistical Mechanics
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2025 | Dr Theo Assiotis | University of Edinburgh | |
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Mathematics of Statistical Mechanics
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2024 | Dr Soheyla Feyzbakhsh | Imperial College London | |
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Geometry
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2024 | Professor Nick Sheridan | University of Edinburgh | |
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Geometry
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2023 | Dr Anne Cori | Imperial College London | |
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Mathematical and Statistical Epidemiology
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2023 | Professor Adam Kucharski | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | |
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Mathematical and Statistical Epidemiology
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2022 | Professor Jack Thorne | University of Cambridge | |
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Number Theory
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2021 | Professor Jeffrey Galkowski | University College London | |
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Evolution Equations
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2021 | Professor Mahir Hadžić | University College London | |
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Evolution Equations
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2020 | Dr Michael Wemyss | University of Glasgow | |
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Algebra
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2020 | Professor Konstantin Ardakov | University of Oxford | |
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Algebra
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2019 | Dr Heather Harrington | University of Oxford | |
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The Mathematics of Networks
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2019 | Dr Luitgard Veraart | London School of Economics and Political Science | |
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The Mathematics of Networks
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2018 | Dr Claudia de Rham | Imperial College London | |
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The Mathematics of Astronomy and Cosmology
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2018 | Dr Gustav Holzegel | Imperial College London | |
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The Mathematics of Astronomy and Cosmology
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2017 | Professor Graham Cormode | University of Warwick | |
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Statistical Analysis of Big Data
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2017 | Professor Richard Samworth | University of Cambridge | |
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Statistical Analysis of Big Data
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2016 | Professor Clement Mouhot | University of Cambridge | |
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Applied Analysis
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2015 | Dr Arend Bayer | University of Edinburgh | |
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Algebraic Geometry
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2015 | Dr Tom Coates | Imperial College London | |
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Algebraic Geometry
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2013 | Professor Ivan Smith | University of Cambridge | |
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Topology
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2012 | Dr Françoise Tisseur | University of Manchester | |
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Computational Mathematics
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2012 | Dr Sheehan Olver | University of Oxford | |
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Computational Mathematics
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2011 | Dr Harald Helfgott | University of Bristol | |
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Discrete Mathematics or Number Theory
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2011 | Dr Tom Sanders | University of Cambridge | |
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Discrete Mathematics or Number Theory
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2010 | Professor Jacques Vanneste | University of Edinburgh | |
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Fluid Mechanics
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2009 | Professor Raphaël Rouquier | University of Oxford | |
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Representation Theory
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2008 | Dr David Tong | University of Cambridge | |
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Quantum Fields and Strings
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2008 | Professor Tom Bridgeland | University of Sheffield | |
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Quantum Fields and Strings
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2007 | Dr Paul Fearnhead | Lancaster University | |
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Statistics
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2006 | Professor Jonathan Sherratt | Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus | |
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Mathematical Biology
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2005 | Dr Mihalis Dafermos | University of Cambridge | |
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Differential Equations
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2005 | Dr David Stuart | University of Cambridge | |
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Differential Equations
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2004 | Professor Dominic Joyce | University of Oxford | |
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Differential Geometry
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2003 | Dr David Hobson | University of Bath | |
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Financial Mathematics
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2002 | Dr Susan Howson | University of Nottingham | |
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Number Theory
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2001 | Dr Sandu Popescu | University of Bristol | |
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Quantum Information
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1992 | Paul Glendinning | Gonville & Caius College | |
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Dynamical Systems
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1986 | Brian Ripley | Churchill College | |
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Spatial and Geometrical Aspects of Probability and Statistics
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1984 | Bernard John Carr | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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Cosmology
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1982 | Aidan Schofield | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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Algebra
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1982 | Dan Segal | Peterhouse college cambridge | |
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Algebra
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1982 | Stephen Donkin | University of Oxford | |
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Algebra
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1982 | Gordon James | Sidney Sussex College | |
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Algebra
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1982 | Martin Taylor | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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Algebra
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1980 | Brian Leslie Norman Kennett | Emmanuel University | |
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Theories of Wave Generation Propagation, Interaction and Stability
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1980 | Michael E. McIntyre | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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Theories of Wave Generation Propagation, Interaction and Stability
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1978 | Alastair Mees | King's College London | |
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Differential Equations
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1976 | Dr Timothy John Pedley | Gonville & Caius College | |
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Applications of Mathematics in Biology
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1974 | Dr David Barton | St John's College Cambridge | |
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Computer Science excluding Hardware
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1974 | John Fitch | St John's College Cambridge | |
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Computer Science excluding Hardware
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1972 | Dr Alan Baker | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The Theory of Numbers
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1972 | Professor Christopher Hooley | Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi | |
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The Theory of Numbers
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1972 | Professor Hugh Lowell Montgomery | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The Theory of Numbers
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1970 | John Raymond Willis | Fitzwilliam College | |
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Continuum Mechanics of some class of solid materials, in regard to the theoretical basis and/or applications
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1970 | Robert Burridge | King's College London | |
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Continuum Mechanics of some class of solid materials, in regard to the theoretical basis and/or applications
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1970 | Leslie John Walpole | Emmanuel University | |
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Continuum Mechanics of some class of solid materials, in regard to the theoretical basis and/or applications
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1966 | Dr Jayant Narlikar | King's College London | |
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Geometrical Problems of Relativity, with special references to the foundations of General Relativity and Cosmology
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1966 | Dr Roger Penrose | St John's College Cambridge | |
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Geometrical Problems of Relativity, with special references to the foundations of General Relativity and Cosmology
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1966 | Dr Stephen Hawking | Gonville & Caius College | |
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Geometrical Problems of Relativity, with special references to the foundations of General Relativity and Cosmology
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1964 | Dr James Gardner Oldroyd | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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Fluid Mechanics
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1964 | Dr Owen Martin Phillips | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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Fluid Mechanics
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1962 | John Robert Ringrose | St John's College Cambridge | |
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Topic in Not Found for this year
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1960 | Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar | Fitzwilliam College | |
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Probability Theory
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1960 | Walter Laws Smith | Pembroke College | |
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Probability Theory
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1958 | John Gerald Taylor | Christ's college cambridge | |
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Quantum Field Theory
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1958 | Paul Taunton Matthews | Clare College Cambridge | |
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Quantum Field Theory
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1958 | Professor Abdus Salam | St John's College Cambridge | |
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Quantum Field Theory
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1956 | Harold Gordon Eggleston | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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Topology
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1956 | Loan Mackenzie James | Gonville & Caius College | |
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Topology
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1956 | Peter John Hilton | Pembroke College | |
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Topology
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1952 | Bernhard Hermann Neumann | Fitzwilliam College | |
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A contribution to the theory of groups (by algebraic, analytical, topological or other methods, and including applications in which the use of group theory plays the major part)
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1952 | William Leonard Edge | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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A contribution to the theory of groups (by algebraic, analytical, topological or other methods, and including applications in which the use of group theory plays the major part)
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1950 | George Keith Batchelor | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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Problems in the mechanics of solids and fluids (including elasticity, plasticity and hydrodynamics)
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1950 | Leslie Howarth | St John's College Cambridge | |
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Problems in the mechanics of solids and fluids (including elasticity, plasticity and hydrodynamics)
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1950 | William Reginald Dean | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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Problems in the mechanics of solids and fluids (including elasticity, plasticity and hydrodynamics)
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1948 | John Charles Burkill | Peterhouse, College in Cambridge | |
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An essay on some subject in mathematical analysis
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1948 | John MacNaughton Whittaker | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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An essay on some subject in mathematical analysis
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1948 | Subrahmanyan Chandresekhar | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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An essay on some subject in mathematical analysis
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1948 | Walter Kurt Hayman | St John's College Cambridge | |
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An essay on some subject in mathematical analysis
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1942 | Hormasji Jehangir Bhabha | Gonville & Caius College | |
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The theory of the elementary particles and their interactions
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1940 | Harold Davenport | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The Theory of Numbers
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1936 | John Arthur Todd | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The general reduction of an algebraic surface to one without multiplicities
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1936 | Patrick Du Val | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The geometrical representation of the physical universe
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1936 | Thomas Gerald Room | St John's College Cambridge | |
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The application of topological methods to the theory of algebraic loci
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1936 | William Vallance Douglas Hodge | Pembroke College | |
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The theory of algebraic systems of curves on an algebraic surface
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1934 | Louis Rosenhead | St John's College Cambridge | |
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The mathematical representation of unsteady flow in fluids
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1934 | Sydney Goldstein | St John's College Cambridge | |
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The mathematical representation of unsteady flow in fluids
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1932 | Alan Herries Wilson | Emmanuel University | |
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The Quantum-Mechanical theory of aperiodic phenomena
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1930 | Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The theory of almost periodic functions
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1928 | Sydney Chapman | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The variations in the Earth's magnetic field in relation to electric phenomena in the upper atmosphere and on the Earth
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1926 | Sir Harold Jeffreys | St John's College Cambridge | |
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The constitution of the interior of the Earth and the missing words
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1924 | Sir Ralph Fowler | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The physical state of matter at high temperatures
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1922 | Joseph Proudman | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The Theory of the Tides
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1922 | Sir Harold Jeffreys (Highly commended) | St John's College Cambridge | |
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The Theory of the Tides
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1920 | John William Nicholson | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The nature and analysis of optical spectra
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1920 | William Mitchinson Hicks | St John's College Cambridge | |
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The nature and analysis of optical spectra
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1918 | John William Nicholson | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The Diffraction of Sound Waves
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1916 | James Hopwood Jeans | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The course of evolution of the configurations possible for a rotating and gravitating fluid mass, including the discussion of the stabilities of the various forms
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1914 | Geoffrey Ingram Taylor | Turbulent Motions in Fluids | |
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The phenomena of the disturbed motion of fluids, including the resistances encountered by bodies moving through them
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1912 | John William Nicholson | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The Theory of Radiation
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1912 | Samuel Bruce McClaren | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The Theory of Radiation
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1911 | Augustus Edward Hough Love | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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Some Investigation connected with the physical constitution or motion of the earth
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1909 | George Adolphus Schott | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The radiation from electric systems or ions in accelerated motion and the mechanical reactions on their motion which arise from it
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1907 | Ernest William Brown | Christ's college cambridge | |
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The inequalities in the Moon's motion due to the direct action of the planets
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1901 | Hector Munro MacDonald | Clare College Cambridge | |
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Electric Waves
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1899 | Gilbert Thomas Walker | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The Theory of the Aberration of Light
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1899 | Joseph Larmor | St John's College Cambridge | |
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The Theory of the Aberration of Light
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1893 | John Henry Poynting | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The methods of determining the absolute and relative value of gravitation and the mean density of the earth
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1883 | Joseph John Thomson | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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A general investigation of the action upon each other of two closed vortices in a perfectly incompressible fluid
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1877 | Edward John Routh | Peterhouse college cambridge | |
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The Criterion of Dynamical Stability
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1871 | Isaac Todhunter | St John's College Cambridge | |
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A determination of the circumstances under which discontinuity of any kind presents itself in the solution of a problem of maximum or minimum in the calculus of variations, and applications of particular instances
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1865 | Edward Walker | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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A systematic account of the phenomena and laws of terrestrial and cosmical magnetism so far as they have been hitherto ascertained by experiment
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1857 | James Clerk Maxwell | Trinity College Cambridge | |
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The motion of Saturn's rings
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1850 | Robert Peirson | St John's College Cambridge | |
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The theory of the long inequality of Uranus and Neptune, depending on the near commensurability of their mean motions
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Adams Prize FAQs
Adams Prize is a recognized award honoring excellence and achievements in Mathematics category, awarded to deserving individuals or organizations worldwide.
It is a Mathematics award category, recognizing outstanding contributions, performance, and excellence in Mathematics field or domain globally.
This award is given for Research in mathematical sciences, honoring individuals or groups who have demonstrated exceptional achievements and contributions in this area.
The Adams Prize is presented by Faculty of Mathematics at St John's College, recognizing excellence and honoring individuals for their significant achievements and contributions.
Adams Prize was first awarded in 1850, marking the beginning of recognizing excellence and achievements in its respective category.
The most recent Adams Prize was awarded in 2025, continuing its tradition of recognizing excellence and outstanding achievements globally.
Currently, the Adams Prize is Continue, indicating whether the award is actively presented or has been discontinued officially.
Adams Prize is awarded by International, recognizing achievements and honoring individuals or organizations associated with International country and its excellence.
