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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 ...
John Couch Adams (5 June 1819 – 21 January 1892), was an English mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast , Cornwall and died in Cambridge . He was famous for co-discovering the planet Neptune .
John Couch Adams nació el 5 de junio de 1819 en Inglaterra, en una familia de granjeros. Es conocido por predecir la existencia del planeta Neptuno, así como su posición, sólo haciendo uso de las matemáticas. Mientras tanto, en Francia, Urbain Le Verrier estaba haciendo los mismos cálculos que Adams sin conocimiento del trabajo
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.
John Couch Adams ( Lidcot, 5 giugno 1819 – Cambridge, 21 gennaio 1892) è stato un matematico britannico . È principalmente noto per avere ipotizzato l'esistenza di Nettuno usando puramente calcoli matematici. I calcoli cercavano di spiegare le discrepanze tra l' orbita di Urano e le leggi del moto dei pianeti elaborate da Keplero e Newton.
Élete. Apja Thomas Adams wesleyanus misszionárius volt. John Adams egy hétgyermekes család legidősebb fia volt. Tanulmányait kezdetben anyai nagybátyja J. C. Grylls tiszteletes irányításával végezte. 1859-ben a Cambridge-i egyetemen a csillagászat és geometria professzora lett, majd 1861-ben kinevezték a Cambridge-i obszervatórium igazgatójává.
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.
