The University of Cambridge has announced the winner of one of its oldest and most prestigious prizes.
The Adams Prize is awarded jointly each year by the Faculty of Mathematics and St John’s College to UK-based researchers, under the age of 40, doing first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences.
This year's topic was "Mathematical and Statistical Epidemiology" and the prize had been jointly awarded to Dr Anne Cori of Imperial College London and Professor Adam Kucharski of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, for their work modelling the spread of infectious disease outbreaks.
The Adams Prize is named after the mathematician John Couch Adams and was endowed by members of St John’s College. It commemorates Adams’s role in the discovery of the planet Neptune, through calculation of the discrepancies in the orbit of Uranus.
For further information, please contact:
- Undergraduate Office, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Cambridge.
e-mail: adamsprize@maths.cam.ac.uk - Office of External Affairs and Communications, University of Cambridge.
Tel: 01223 332300; e-mail: communications@admin.cam.ac.uk
