John Couch Adams Biography
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John Couch Adams (June 5, 1819 – January 21, 1892), was a British
mathematician. His most famous achievement was predicting the
existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics. The
calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's
orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. At the same time, but
unknown to both, the same calculations were made by Urbain Le
Verrier. Le Verrier would assist Galle in locating the planet
(September 1846); which was found within 1° of its predicted location,
a point in Aquarius. Adams was born in Laneast, England and died
He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1866.
In 1884, he attended the International Meridian Conference as
a delegate for Great Britain.
A crater on the Moon is jointly named after him, Walter Sydney
Adams and Charles Hitchcock Adams. Neptune's outermost known ring
and the asteroid 1996 Adams are also named after him.
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