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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.
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.
1 giu 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.
ADAMS, John Couch. Francesco Porro de Somenzi. Nato a Lidcot (Cornovaglia), il 5 giugno 1819, morto il 21 gennaio 1892 a Cambridge, dov'era professore di astronomia e geometria e direttore dell'osservatorio.
3 ago 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.
John Couch Adams was an astronomer and mathematician who was the first person to predict the position of a planet beyond Uranus.
Matematico e astronomo (Lidcot, Cornovaglia, 1819 - Cambridge 1892); professore di astronomia e geometria a Cambridge, dove diresse l' osservatorio; socio straniero dei Lincei (1883).
