Adams Prize: Professor Jacques Vanneste

Professor Jacques Vanneste of the School of Mathematics has been awarded one of the University of Cambridge’s oldest prizes.

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M 100303 Adams Prize: Professor Jacques Vanneste

The Edinburgh mathematician was awarded the Adams Prize in recognition of his work in the area of fluid mechanics, this year’s prize topic.

First-class research

The Adams Prize is awarded annually to a UK-based researcher, usually under the age of 40, conducting first-class international research in mathematics.

Previous recipients of the prize have included Stephen Hawking and James Clerk Maxwell.

The award, worth around £13,500, is named after the mathematician John Couch Adams.

It commemorates his discovery of the planet Neptune through calculation of the discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus.