Frank Adams

Frank Adams
Adams (right) with Dieter Puppe in 1962
Born(1930-11-05)5 November 1930
Woolwich, London, United Kingdom
Died7 January 1989(1989-01-07) (aged 58)
Brampton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forAdams spectral sequence
Adams operations
Adams conjecture
AwardsBerwick Prize (1963)
Senior Whitehead Prize (1974)
Sylvester Medal (1982)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisOn Spectral Sequences and Self-Obstruction Invariants (1956)
Doctoral advisorShaun Wylie
Doctoral studentsBéla Bollobás
Peter Johnstone
Andrew Ranicki
C. T. C. Wall
Lam Siu-por

John Frank Adams FRS (5 November 1930 – 7 January 1989) was a British mathematician, one of the major contributors to homotopy theory.