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	John Couch Adams - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOHN COUCH ADAMS (1819-1892), British astronomer, was born at Lidcot farmhouse, Laneast, Cornwall, on the 5th of June 1819.
		Using a powerful and elaborate analysis, Adams ascertained that this cluster of meteors, which belongs to the solar system, traverses an elongated ellipse in 334 years, and is subject to definite perturbations from the larger planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
		An international committee was formed for the purpose of erecting a monument to his memory in Westminster Abbey; and there, in May 1895, a portrait medallion, by Albert Bruce Joy, was placed near the grave of Newton, and adjoining the memorials of Darwin and of Joule.
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	John Couch Adams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Couch Adams (June 5, 1819 – January 21, 1892), was a British mathematician and astronomer.
		Adams was born in Laneast, Cornwall and died in Cambridge.
		Using a powerful and elaborate analysis, Adams ascertained that this cluster of meteors, which belongs to the solar system, traverses an elongated ellipse in 33 1/4 years, and is subject to definite perturbations from the larger planets, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus.
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	John Couch Adams - Early life, Publications
		Adams was appointed professor of astronomy at Cambridge in 1858, and was director of the Cambridge Observatory from 1861.
		Adams was born in Laneast, Cornwall and died in Cambridge.
		His father, Thomas Adams, was a tenant farmer; His promise as a mathematician induced his parents to send him to the University of Cambridge, and in October 1839 he entered as a sizar at St John's College.
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	John Couch Adams - MSN Encarta
		John Couch Adams (June 5, 1819 – January 21, 1892), was a British mathematician and astronomer.
		John Couch Adams (astronomer) (1819-1892), English astronomer and mathematician, who predicted the existence of the planet Neptune.
		Adams was appointed the Lowndean professor of astronomy and geometry at Cambridge in 1859 and director of the Cambridge Observatory in 1861.
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	John Adams (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Adams (1735–1826) was the second President of the United States.
		John Adams (mayor) (1773–1825), Mayor of Richmond, Virginia
		John Adams (Blessed) (died 1586), Catholic priest and martyr under Elizabeth I of England
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		See also the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Society The Adams Prize is awarded each year by the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and St Johns College to a young, UK based mathematician for first class international research in the Mathematical Sciences.
		Adams called on him but as he was at dinner at the time he refused to see the young man, instead sending him a note asking a purely technical question which Adams, for his part, did not answer for the simple reason that he claimed the question was superfluous.
		However John Herschel was able to lend his authority and international reputation to help calm what might have become an unfortunate scientific contretemps, so that posterity has been able to give due credit both to Adams and Leverrier, at least on the English side of the Channel.
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	Adams, John Couch - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Adams, John Couch
		He mathematically deduced the existence of the planet Neptune in 1845 from the effects of its gravitational pull on the motion of Uranus, although it was not found until 1846 by J G Galle.
		Adams was born in Landeast, Cornwall, and educated at Cambridge, where he spent virtually his entire career.
		By 1845 Adams had determined the position and certain characteristics of the hypothetical planet affecting the orbit, but a search for the new planet was not instigated for nearly a year at Cambridge.
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		John Couch Adams (June 5, 1819 - January 21, 1892), was a British mathematician.
		Le Verrier would assist Galle in locating the planet (September 1846); which was found within 1° of its predicted location, a point in Aquarius.
		Adams was born in Laneast, England and died in Cambridge.
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	John Couch Adams Biography Summary
		John Couch Adams was born near Launceston, England, the son of a poor tenant farmer in 1819.
		The English mathematical astronomer John Couch Adams (1819-1892) was a principal figure in the discovery of the planet Neptune.
		John Couch Adams (June 5 1819 – January 21, 1892), was a British mathematician and astronomer.
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	Adams, John Couch
		English astronomer who mathematically deduced the existence of the planet Neptune 1845 from the effects of its gravitational pull on the motion of Uranus, although it was not found until 1846 by J G Galle.
		Adams was born in Landeast, Cornwall, and educated at Cambridge, where he spent virtually his entire career.
		By 1845 Adams had determined the position and certain characteristics of the hypothetical planet affecting the orbit, but a search for the new planet was not instigated for nearly a year at Cambridge.
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		Adams National Historic Site Overview of birthplace of John Adams, second U.S. president, and his son, John Quincy Adams, 6th U.S. president.
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	Adams, John Couch
		As the son of a tenant farmer, Adams had financial problems in entering Cambridge, but his career was successful and he remained there throughout his life.
		By 1820 it had become apparent to astronomers that the motion of Uranus could not be explained by law of gravitation and the influence of the known planets alone, since a small but increasing perturbation in its orbit had been observed.
		While still an undergraduate, Adams proved that the deviation had to be due to the influence of an eighth, undiscovered, planet.
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	Adams biography
		John attended the nearby village school at Laneast, where he studied Greek and algebra, until he was twelve years old when he went to a private school at Devonport run by his cousin the Revd John Couch Grylls.
		[Adams] suggests that the comet may, perhaps, not have been moving long in its present orbit, and that, as in the case of the comet of 1770, we are indebted to the action of Jupiter for its present apparition.
		Adams spent much effort on the complex problem of a description of the motion of the Moon, giving a theory which was more accurate than that of Laplace.
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	John Couch Adams
		John Couch Adams was born in Cornwall, England in 1819 to a farming family.
		Adams theorized that the unexpected planetary orbit could be due to the presence of an as yet undiscovered planet in the vicinity.
		Adams was a mathematics professor at Cambridge and eventually became director of the Cambridge Observatory.
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	John Couch Adams
		The honor of knighthood was offered to Adams when Queen Victoria visited Cambridge in 1847; but then, as on a subsequent occasion, his modesty led him to decline it.
		II (1900), edited by William Grylls Adams and Ralph Allen Sampson, with a memoir by Dr. J.
		Adams to the library of St. John's College.
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		In 1858, Adams became professor of mathematics at St. Andrews Univ., but he soon returned to Cambridge, to occupy the Lowndean chair of astronomy and geometry until his death.
		Encyclopedia of World Biography John Couch Adams The English mathematical astronomer John Couch Adams (1819-1892) was a principal figure in the discovery...
		June 5, 1819, to a farm family of modest station, John Couch Adams early demonstrated a remarkable capacity for mathematics...
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	John Couch Adams - Wikipedia
		Adams wurde 1858 Professor an der Universität St.
		Adams selbst hatte seine Resultate nie als vertrauenswürdig bezeichnet.
		Die Akten zu Adams' Berechnungen wurden offenkundig seit 1850 unterdrückt.
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		John Couch Adams was born June 5, 1819 in Cornwall, England.
		Adams graduated in 1843, and was given a Fellowship from Pembroke College, a position he held until his death.
		John Couch Adams died January 21, 1892 in Cambridge, England and is buried next to his wife.
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		John's first schooling was in Laneast village at a small school in a farmhouse kept by Anne Dawe, a mile and a half away across Laneast Down "Father took John on his pony a considerable part of the way" : an extract from younger brother George's account.
		John was involved in the work of the Washington Conference of 1884 when the Greenwich Meridian was fixed and later when the International Dateline for Navigation was agreed in 1888.
		John died in 1892; his official biography was never written, owing to the illness of the professor to whom the papers were sent.
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	John Couch Adams, Astronomer who discovered planet Neptune
		John Couch Adams will be best remembered, however, for his role as the co-discoverer of Neptune.
		John Couch Adams went the village school at Laneast, where he studied Greek and algebra, until he was 12 years old.
		Adams also studied terrestrial magnetism, determined the Gaussian magnetic constants at every point on the Earth and produced maps with contour lines of equal magnetic variation which were published after his death.
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		John Adams and Thomas Jefferson -- Their Correspondence...the burial-ground at Quincy, by JOHN Adams, President of the United States...age of eighty-four years.
		She slept on the couch that night and threw all...action might be depicted as Adams fall from grace--from...Studies (35 1989, 716-718), "John Kennedy Toole, The Neon...people and places.
		I remember something the physician John Bach wrote in an article about boys with muscular dystrophy...daily exercises: leaning with his palms against the back of the couch, pushing his heels down toward the floor, one at a time, to...
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	Adams, Airy and the Discovery of Neptune in 1846
		Adams, via a letter of introduction from Professor Challis in Cambridge, had applied to Professor George Biddell Airy, the Astronomer Royal for some kind of assistance, though he failed to secure an interview with Airy, and nothing further happened - until the New Planet was discovered in Berlin, nearly a year later.
		After Adams left his figures for Neptune's place, when the Airy family were at dinner on October 21st, 1845, Airy was prompt in writing to Adams in Cambridge, requesting crucial pieces of mathematical information about the basis of his computations.
		John Couch Adams, while a brilliant mathematician, was rather naive socially, and was said by a senior Cambridge colleague to have behaved, regarding Neptune, not "like a man who made a great discovery, but like a bashful boy." In 1846, however, the "bashful boy" was 27 years old.
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	John Couch Adams -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		As first vice president and second president of the United States, John Adams was one of the founding fathers of the new nation.
		Eldest son of John Adams, the second president of the United States, John Quincy Adams followed in his father's footsteps to serve as the sixth president of the United States, from 1825 to 1829.
		John Adams overcame the technological and political difficulties of building a large-scale accelerator to construct the powerful super proton synchrotron accelerator for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
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