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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Couch Adams has received more than 216,319 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 62 in 2019). John Couch Adams is the 113th most popular mathematician (down from 105th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 493rd in 2019) and the 12th 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

Among mathematicians, John Couch Adams ranks 113 out of 1,004. Before him are Paul Ehrenfest, John Wallis, Anthemius of Tralles, Girard Desargues, Brook Taylor, and János Bolyai. After him are Jean-Victor Poncelet, Hippocrates of Chios, Meton of Athens, Theon of Alexandria, Leonid Kantorovich, and Josef Stefan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1819, John Couch Adams ranks 16. Before him are Báb, Hippolyte Fizeau, Maria II of Portugal, John Ruskin, George Eliot, and Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. After him are William T. G. Morton, George V of Hanover, Theodor Fontane, Franz von Suppé, Stanisław Moniuszko, and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1892, John Couch Adams ranks 11. Before him are Ernest Renan, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Richard Owen, Édouard Lalo, Thomas Cook, and Rudolf von Jhering. After him are Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Louis Vuitton, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Deodoro da Fonseca, and August Wilhelm von Hofmann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Couch Adams ranks 499 out of 8,785. Before him are J. Bruce Ismay (1862), Henry Hudson (1570), Trevor Howard (1913), James I of Scotland (1394), Richard Branson (1950), and James IV of Scotland (1473). After him are Patrick Stewart (1940), Ian McEwan (1948), William Stanley Jevons (1835), Gordon Brown (1951), Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (1897), and Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Couch Adams ranks 12. Before him are G. H. Hardy (1877), Isaac Barrow (1631), Joan Clarke (1917), Thomas Harriot (1560), John Wallis (1616), and Brook Taylor (1685). After him are Colin Maclaurin (1698), Oliver Heaviside (1850), William Oughtred (1574), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Arthur Cayley (1821), and James Joseph Sylvester (1814).

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