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19 de ago. de 2023 · Simultáneamente, en Cambridge, el matemático John Couch Adams (1819-1892) llevaba tiempo trabajando en el mismo problema y ya había calculado una posición para el planeta desconocido. En las semanas siguientes se desencadenó una agria polémica entre Francia e Inglaterra sobre la paternidad del hallazgo.
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.
In 1845, astronomers Urbain Le Verrier in Paris and John Couch Adams in Cambridge separately began calculations to determine the nature and position of such a planet. Le Verrier's success also led to a tense international dispute over priority, because shortly after the discovery George Airy , at the time British Astronomer Royal , announced that Adams had also predicted the discovery of the ...
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.
However, the painful controversy having ended, astronomers can only endorse the words of Sir John Herschel, addressing the Royal Astronomical Society in 1848, and speaking of Le Verrier and Adams ...
也翻译为约翰·柯西·亚当斯（John Couch Adams，1819年6月5日－1892年1月21日），英国数学家、天文学家，海王星的发现者之一。亚当斯1819年6月5日出生于英国的康沃尔郡，1843年毕业于剑桥大学，后留校任教。在剑桥大学学习期间，亚当斯注意到了天王星轨道运动的反常问题。1844年，亚当斯仔细研究了 ...
