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John Hymers. John Couch Adams FRS FRSE FRAS ( / kuːtʃ /; 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.
Empregador (a) Observatório de Cambridge, Universidade de St. Andrews. Campo (s) astronomia. [ edite no Wikidata] John Couch Adams (Laneast, Cornualha, 5 de junho de 1819 — Londres, 21 de janeiro de 1892) foi um astrônomo britânico . Ainda estudante do St John's College (Cambridge), propôs a teoria que o notabilizou, segundo a ...
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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Born. 5 June 1819. Lidcott, near Launceston, Cornwall, England. Died. 21 January 1892. Cambridge, England. Summary. John Couch Adams was an astronomer and mathematician who was the first person to predict the position of a planet beyond Uranus. View six larger pictures. Biography.
3 de ago. de 2020 · Abstract. 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.
- Davor Krajnović
- 2020
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. He was educated in mathematics at St. Johns College, Cambridge. While still an undergraduate, he performed an ...
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.
