John H. Coates

John H. Coates
FRS
John H. Coates FRS
	Coates in 2006
Born	John Henry Coates; 26 January 1945; Possum Brush, New South Wales, Australia
Died	9 May 2022 (aged 77); Cambridge, England
Alma mater	Australian National University (BSc); Trinity College, Cambridge (PhD);
Known for	Iwasawa theory; p-adic L-functions;
Spouse	Julie Turner
Awards	FRS (1985); Senior Whitehead Prize (1997);
	Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	University of Cambridge; Harvard University; Université de Paris, Orsay; École Normale Supérieure; Stanford University;
Thesis	The Effective Solution of Some Diophantine Equations (1969)
Doctoral advisor	Alan Baker
Doctoral students	Pierre Colmez; Matthias Flach; Catherine Goldstein; Mahesh Kakde; Bernadette Perrin-Riou; Susan Howson; Anupam Saikia; Gergely Zábrádi; Leila Schneps; Jacques Tilouine; Otmar Venjakob; Andrew Wiles; Sarah Zerbes;
Website	dpmms.cam.ac.uk/people/jhc13

John Henry Coates FRS (26 January 1945 – 9 May 2022) was an Australian mathematician who was the Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom from 1986 to 2012.