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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.
John Couch Adams nació en la granja Lidcot, a siete millas de Launceston. Era el hijo mayor de Thomas Adams, un granjero y devoto wesleyano, y Tabitha Knill Grylls. Las circunstancias familiares eran modestas pero respetables: la prima de Tabitha Adams era la directora de una escuela privada en Devonport, y en 1836 su madre adoptiva le dejó algunas propiedades y un pequeño ingreso que ...
3 de ago. de 2020 · John Couch Adams predicted the location of Neptune in the sky, calculated the expectation of the change in the mean motion of the Moon due to the Earth’s pull, and determined the origin and the orbit of the Leonids meteor shower which had puzzled astronomers for almost a thousand years.
John Couch Adams F.R.S., mathematician and astronomer, has a memorial in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey, near to memorials to Darwin and G.G. Stokes and not far from Newton's grave. It consists of a white marble roundel by Albert Bruce-Joy with a profile bust in relief, facing left. It was unveiled in May 1895.
19 de jun. de 2009 · John Couch Adams Simultáneamente, en Cambridge, el joven y brillante matemático John Couch Adams (1819-1892), sin conocer el trabajo de Le Verrier, llevaba tiempo trabajando en el mismo problema.
John Couch Adams (n. 5 iunie 1819, Laneast (d), Cornwall (d), Anglia, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei – d. 21 ianuarie 1892, Cambridge, Regatul Unit al Marii Britanii și Irlandei) a fost un matematician, astronom, profesor universitar englez și director al Observatorului din Cambridge . Este cunoscut mai ales pentru ...
24 de abr. de 2018 · John Couch Adams died in Cambridge in 1892 and has a memorial dedicated to him in Westminster Abbey, close to that of Sir Isaac Newton. Neptune’s outermost known ring and a 1996 asteroid are both named after him and The Adams Prize, awarded annually by the University of Cambridge, commemorates his prediction of Neptune’s position.
