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John Couch Adams FRS FRSE FRAS ( 5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892) was a British mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge. His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics. Adams was Lowndean Professor in the University of ...
In 1845, astronomers Urbain Le Verrier in Paris and John Couch Adams in Cambridge separately began calculations to determine the nature and position of such a planet. Le Verrier's success also led to a tense international dispute over priority, because shortly after the discovery George Airy , at the time British Astronomer Royal , announced that Adams had also predicted the discovery of the ...
John Couch Adams was named after his mother's uncle, John Couch. It is particularly fitting that this should be the case since John Couch provided some education for Tabitha who inherited his library which included several astronomy books. It was this library, particularly the astronomy books in it, which fired John's interest as he grew up.
John Couch Adams and U.J. Le Verrier both investigated anomalies in the motion of Uranus and independently predicted the existence and location of this new planet. However, interpretations of the events surrounding this discovery have long been mired in controversy.
19 de ago. de 2023 · Simultáneamente, en Cambridge, el matemático John Couch Adams (1819-1892) llevaba tiempo trabajando en el mismo problema y ya había calculado una posición para el planeta desconocido. En las semanas siguientes se desencadenó una agria polémica entre Francia e Inglaterra sobre la paternidad del hallazgo.
However, the painful controversy having ended, astronomers can only endorse the words of Sir John Herschel, addressing the Royal Astronomical Society in 1848, and speaking of Le Verrier and Adams ...
John Couch Adams (5 Haziran 1819, Cornwall - 21 Ocak 1892), İngiliz astronomdur. Cambridge Üniversitesi 'nde öğrenim gören John Couch Adams, aynı üniversitede, asistanlık, astronomi profesörlüğü yaptı.
