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Encyclopedia > Adams Prize

See also the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Society, and not to be confused with the Douglas Adams Prize for homourous writing The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest and largest society of historians and teachers of history in the United States. ... Douglas Noël Adams (11 March 1952 – 11 May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician. ...


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 University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ... College name The College of Saint John the Evangelist of the University of Cambridge Motto Souvent me Souvient (Latin: I often remember) Named after The Hospital of Saint John the Evangelist Established 1511 Location St. ...


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 Adams' 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 winner's field in a major mathematics journal. John Couch Adams (June 5, 1819 – January 21, 1892), was a British mathematician and astronomer. ... Year 1848 (MDCCCXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Atmospheric characteristics Surface pressure ≫100 MPa Hydrogen - H2 80% ±3. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


The prize has been awarded to many well known mathematicians including James Clerk Maxwell and Sir William Hodge. However the first female mathematician to win the prize was only in 2002 when it was awarded to Susan Howson a lecturer at the University of Nottingham for her work on number theory and elliptic curves. James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 – 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematician and theoretical physicist from Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. His most significant achievement was aggregating a set of equations in electricity, magnetism and inductance — eponymously named Maxwells equations — including an important modification (extension) of the Ampères... This article is about a mathematician. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... Susan Howson is a British mathematician who works on Algebraic number theory and arithmetic geometry. ... The University of Nottingham is a leading research and teaching university in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. ... Number theory is the branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of numbers in general, and integers in particular, as well as the wider classes of problems that arise from their study. ... In mathematics, elliptic curves are defined by certain cubic (the superscript exponent is three, a. ...


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 (for with biographies on Wikipedia see Category:Adams Prize recipients):


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Eddie Adams (photographer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (460 words)
Adams won a Pulitzer Prize and a World Press Photo award for the picture (captioned General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner in Saigon), but would later lament its notoriety.
Adams later apologised in person to General Loan and his family for the irretrievable damage it did to his honor when he was alive.
Adams died in New York City from complications of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease).
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Adams, who had been photographing the suspect as police marched him to his fate, was not aware of what was planned.
Adams, who lifted his camera in synch with the general's gun, took the famed photo the nanosecond the bullet passed through the man's skull.
Adams, a sartorial iconoclast who, it was once said, would wear a white jeans suit to a fl-tie affair, liked arriving late at his workshop's opening-night ceremonies.
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