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John Couch Adams

1819 - 1892

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John Couch Adams ( KOOTCH; 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. The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Couch Adams is the 88th most popular mathematician (up from 113th in 2019), the 431st most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 499th in 2019) and the 6th most popular British Mathematician.

John Couch Adams is most famous for being the first person to predict the existence of Neptune, based on mathematical calculations.

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Among mathematicians, John Couch Adams ranks 88 out of 1,004. Before him are Zhang Heng, Alfred North Whitehead, Bonaventura Cavalieri, Simon Stevin, Herbert A. Hauptman, and Alexander Grothendieck. After him are Thomas Harriot, Stefan Banach, Christian Goldbach, Jim Simons, Leopold Kronecker, and Frank P. Ramsey.

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Among people born in 1819, John Couch Adams ranks 13. Before him are Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, and Maria II of Portugal. After him are John Ruskin, Franz von Suppé, George Eliot, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Annibale de Gasparis, and Stanisław Moniuszko. Among people deceased in 1892, John Couch Adams ranks 6. Before him are Bahá'u'lláh, Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Walt Whitman, Werner von Siemens, and Ernest Renan. After him are Alexander Mackenzie, Édouard Lalo, Richard Owen, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Rudolf von Jhering, and Annibale de Gasparis.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Couch Adams ranks 431 out of 8,785. Before him are Vanessa Redgrave (1937), David Harvey (1935), Benjamin Britten (1913), Timothy Dalton (1946), Ken Follett (1949), and William Stuart-Houston (1911). After him are John Deacon (1951), Roger Williams (1603), Morrissey (1959), David Suchet (1946), Thomas Harriot (1560), and Halford Mackinder (1861).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Couch Adams ranks 6. Before him are Ada Lovelace (1815), Bertrand Russell (1872), John Napier (1550), George Boole (1815), and Alfred North Whitehead (1861). After him are Thomas Harriot (1560), Frank P. Ramsey (1903), Joan Clarke (1917), John Wallis (1616), George Green (1793), and William Oughtred (1574).

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