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Adams, John Couch
1819 - Born on June 5; birth of an English astronomer and mathematician
1843-1844 - Between these years, he was the first person to predict the position of a planetary mass beyond Uranus
1845-1846 - Became the subject of a famous priority dispute with the French astronomer Urbain Leverrier - predicted existence of Neptune indedependently of Urbain Leverrier
1830s-1850s - Went to Cambridge to study
1861 - Director of Cambridge Observatory
1892 - Died on January 21
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The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting (Science Matters) (Science Matters) by Tom Standage (Paperback - Nov 1, 2001) In 1841, while browsing in a Cambridge bookshop, a young English student named John Couch Adams happened upon a perplexed remark in an astronomical report on the erratic behavior of the planet Uranus...  |
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John Couch Adams and the discovery of Neptune by H. Spencer Jones (Unknown Binding - Jul 9, 2008) |
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THE NEPTUNE FILE (PENGUIN PRESS SCIENCE S.) by TOM STANDAGE (Paperback - Jul 9, 2008) |
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Note on a remarkable property of the analytical expression for the constant term in the reciprocal of the moon's radius vector by John Couch Adams (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970) |
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On Newton's solution of Kepler's problem (Royal Astronomical Society, London. Monthly notices) by John Couch Adams (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970) |
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[Obituary notices] by James Whitebread Lee Glaisher (Unknown Binding - Jan 1, 1970) |
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