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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.
1 de jun. de 2024 · 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 born in Cornwall, England in 1819 to a farming family. From a very early age he amazed everyone with his extraordinary abilities to do mathematical calculations in his head without the use of pen and paper.
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.
29 de mai. de 2018 · John Couch Adams was a British astronomer and mathematician who predicted the existence and position of Neptune from the irregularities of Uranus' orbit. He also made significant contributions to lunar theory and the secular acceleration of the moon's motion.
