list of mathematicians awarded the Adams Prize


This list of mathematicians awarded the Adams Prize is in chronological order. When the prize was awarded to two mathematicians, the prize money was split among the prizewinners.

1850: Robert Peirson

1857: James Clerk Maxwell

1865: Edward Walker

1882: Joseph John Thomson

1871: Isaac Todhunter

1877: Edward John Routh

1883: Joseph John Thomson

1893: John Henry Poynting

1899: Joseph Larmor, Gilbert Thomas Walker

1901: Hector Munro MacDonald

1907: Ernest William Brown

1909: George Adolphus Schott

1911: Augustus Edward Hough Love

1913: Samuel Bruce McClaren, John William Nicholson

1915: Geoffrey Ingram Taylor

1917: Sir James Hopwood Jeans

1919: John William Nicholson

1922: Joseph Proudman

1924: Sir Ralph Fowler

1926: Sir Harold Jeffreys

1928: Sydney Chapman

1930: Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch

1932: Alan Herries Wilson

1934: Sydney Goldstein

1936: Sir William Hodge

1940: Harold Davenport

1942: Hormasji Jehangir Bhabha

1947 - 1948: John Charles Burkill, Subrahmanyan Chandresekhar, Walter Kurt Hayman, John MacNaughton Whittaker

1947: Desmond Sawyer

1949 - 1950: George Keith Batchelor, William Reginald Dean, Leslie Howarth

1952: Bernhard Hermann Neumann

1955: Harold Gordon Eggleston

1958: Paul Taunton Matthews, Abdus Salam, John Gerald Taylor

1960: Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar, Walter Laws Smith

1962: John Robert Ringrose

1964: James Gardner Oldroyd, Owen Larkin Phillips

1966: Stephen Hawking, Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

1966: Roger Penrose

1967: Jayant Vishnu Narlikar

1971: Robert Burridge, Leslie John Walpole, John Raymond Willis

1972: Alan Baker

1973: Christopher Hooley

1975: J. P. Fitch

1981: Michael E. McIntyre

1983: Martin J. Taylor

1983: Aidan Schofield

1987: Brian D. Ripley

1992: Paul A Glendinning

2000: Sandu Popescu

2001: Susan Howson

2002: David Hobson

2003: Dominic Joyce

2004: Mihalis Dafermos and David Stuart

2005: Jonathan Sherratt

2006: Paul Fearnhead

2007: Tom Bridgeland and David Tong

2008: To be announced after October 31, 2008

Title list of mathematicians awarded the Adams Prize
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