Born: October 27, 1921, Veracruz, Mexico.

Died: February 14, 1991, Mexico City, Mexico.

Higher Education: BS in Mathematics at  National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) (Mexico City, Mexico) and PhD at Princeton University (New Jersey, United States of America).

Knows for:

• Adem relations.

Main Publications: 

• Ádem, José (1952). “The iteration of the Steenrod squares in algebraic topology”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 38: pp. 720–726
• Ádem, José (1953). “Relations on iterated reduced powers”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 39: pp. 636–638.