John Anthony Adam is a British-American applied mathematician known for his work on patterns in nature and on mathematical modeling of the growth patterns of cancer and blood vessels.
[1][2] Adam is a 1971 graduate, with first-class honours, from Queen Elizabeth College.
[1][2] His dissertation, A Theoretical Study of Magnetohydrodynamic Processes in Solar Active Regions, was jointly supervised by astrochemist Gillian Peach and astrophysicist Carole Jordan.
[1][2] Adam is the author of books including: In 2007, the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia (SCHEV) gave Adam their Outstanding Faculty Award.
[10] In 2012, Adam won the Carl B. Allendoerfer Award of the Mathematical Association of America for an exposition of blood vessel modeling.