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John Couch Adams FRS FRSE FRAS (/ k uː tʃ /; 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.
John Couch Adams (Laneast, Cornualha, 5 de junho de 1819 — Londres, 21 de janeiro de 1892) foi um astrônomo britânico.
John Couch Adams (born June 5, 1819, Laneast, Cornwall, Eng.—died Jan. 21, 1892, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was a British mathematician and astronomer, one of two people who independently discovered the planet Neptune.
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John Couch Adams was an astronomer and mathematician who was the first person to predict the position of a planet beyond Uranus.
22 de set. de 2021 · Learn how astronomer John Couch Adams independently calculated the position of Neptune in 1845, based on the perturbations of Uranus. Find out how Neptune was observed and explored by telescopes and spacecraft over time.
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22 de mai. de 2021 · A biographical chapter on the life and achievements of John Couch Adams, the mathematical astronomer who discovered Neptune. Learn about his Cornish upbringing, his education at Cambridge, his scientific contributions and his challenges.
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.
