Edwin Plimpton Adams
Born	(1878-01-23)January 23, 1878 Prague, Bohemia-Moravia
Died	December 31, 1956(1956-12-31) (aged 78) Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics Physics
Institutions	Princeton University

Edwin Plimpton Adams (Prague, 23 January 1878^[1] – Princeton, New Jersey, 31 December 1956) was an American physicist known for translating Einstein's lectures. Clinton Joseph Davisson attended his lectures. Adams was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1915.^[2]

Works

• Adams, Edwin Plimpton; Hippisley, Richard Lionel (1922). Greenhill, Alfred George (ed.). Smithsonian Mathematical Formulae and Tables of Elliptic Functions. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. Vol. 74 (1 ed.). Washington D.C., USA: Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 2016-04-17. (NB. A significant number of entries of this book were later included in Iosif Moiseevich Ryzhik's integral table Tables of integrals, sums, series and products (Таблицы интегралов, сумм, рядов и произведений) in 1945.)