John Couch Adams

See also: Adams

John Couch Adams (June 5th 1819 - January 21st, 1892), was a Mathématicien and British astronomer . Adams was born with Laneast, in the Cornouailles and deceased with Cambridge.

Its more famous discovered was the prediction of the existence and the position of the planet Neptune, while being based only on the Mathématiques. It carried out its calculations to explain the divergences between the orbit of Uranus and the laws of Kepler and Newton, which was worth to him the Médaille Copley in 1848. At the same time, but without the knowledge one of the other, same calculations were carried out by Urbain the Glassmaker. The Glassmaker assisted Johann Gottfried Galle to locate the planet (September 1846). He becomes member of the Royal Society in 1849.

John Adams is also known to have invented a numerical method of integration of the ordinary differential equations, which bears jointly its name with Forest Ray Moulton and Francis Bashforth, which improved its method thereafter.

He gained the Gold medal of Royal Astronomical Society in 1866.

In 1884, it attended the International Meridian Conference as delegated the United Kingdom.

Éponymes

a crater on the the Moon owes him its name, like with Walter Sydney Adams and Charles Hitchcock Adams.
the the ring most distant from Neptune and the Astéroïde (1996) Adams also owe him their name.

References

Harrison, H.M (1994). To travel in time and space: the life off John Couch Adams, Cambridge astronomer . Lewes: Book Guild. ISBN 0863329187.

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