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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.
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 (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 ...
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.
The planet Neptune was discovered in 1846 following laborious calculations by Englishman John Couch Adams (1819-1892) and Frenchman Urbain Leverrier (1811-1877). These astronomers, attempting to explain deviations noted in the orbit of Uranus, independently and nearly simultaneously predicted the location of Neptune, which was then located with ...
John Couch Adams. Un pionero en el descubrimiento matemático de planetas. (05 de junio de 1819 – 21 de enero de 1982) Por: Geonell Romero. Asociación Larense de Astronomía, ALDA. El matemático y astrónomo inglés, conocido principalmente por predecir, usando las matemáticas, la existencia del planeta Neptuno, nació en la región de ...
John Couch Adams wrote on the History of the Discovery of Neptune in the Memoirs of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol. 16, 1847 :-. The irregularities in the motions of Uranus have for a long time engaged the attention of Astronomers. When the path of the planet became approximately known, it was found that, previously to its discovery by Sir ...
