1819 - 1892
John Couch Adams (; 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 200,603 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). John Couch Adams is the 105th most popular mathematician (down from 104th in 2019), the 493rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 486th in 2019) and the 8th 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 105 out of 823. Before him are János Bolyai, Jean-Victor Poncelet, Gabriel Cramer, Hippocrates of Chios, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, and Lodovico Ferrari. After him are Thābit ibn Qurra, John Wallis, G. H. Hardy, Meton of Athens, Girard Desargues, and Isaac Barrow.
1802 - 1860
HPI: 65.30
Rank: 99
1788 - 1867
HPI: 64.89
Rank: 100
1704 - 1752
HPI: 64.79
Rank: 101
470 BC - 410 BC
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 102
1804 - 1851
HPI: 64.65
Rank: 103
1522 - 1565
HPI: 64.60
Rank: 104
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 105
836 - 901
HPI: 64.29
Rank: 106
1616 - 1703
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 107
1877 - 1947
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 108
500 BC - Present
HPI: 64.10
Rank: 109
1591 - 1661
HPI: 64.06
Rank: 110
1631 - 1677
HPI: 63.97
Rank: 111
Among people born in 1819, John Couch Adams ranks 17. Before him are Hippolyte Fizeau, George Eliot, Maria II of Portugal, John Ruskin, William T. G. Morton, and Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. After him are Franz von Suppé, George V of Hanover, Theodor Fontane, Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois, Francis V, Duke of Modena, and Allan Pinkerton. Among people deceased in 1892, John Couch Adams ranks 10. Before him are Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Ernest Renan, Thomas Cook, Richard Owen, Édouard Lalo, and Rudolf von Jhering. After him are Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Louis Vuitton, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and Olga Nikolaevna of Russia.
1819 - 1896
HPI: 67.80
Rank: 11
1819 - 1880
HPI: 67.58
Rank: 12
1819 - 1853
HPI: 67.17
Rank: 13
1819 - 1900
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 14
1819 - 1868
HPI: 65.22
Rank: 15
1819 - 1901
HPI: 64.80
Rank: 16
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 17
1819 - 1895
HPI: 64.17
Rank: 18
1819 - 1878
HPI: 63.30
Rank: 19
1819 - 1898
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 20
1819 - 1864
HPI: 60.75
Rank: 21
1819 - 1875
HPI: 60.67
Rank: 22
1819 - 1884
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 23
1808 - 1892
HPI: 69.76
Rank: 4
1823 - 1892
HPI: 68.88
Rank: 5
1808 - 1892
HPI: 66.44
Rank: 6
1804 - 1892
HPI: 66.14
Rank: 7
1823 - 1892
HPI: 65.26
Rank: 8
1818 - 1892
HPI: 65.00
Rank: 9
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 10
1837 - 1892
HPI: 64.07
Rank: 11
1827 - 1892
HPI: 63.41
Rank: 12
1821 - 1892
HPI: 63.05
Rank: 13
1864 - 1892
HPI: 62.51
Rank: 14
1809 - 1892
HPI: 61.97
Rank: 15
1822 - 1892
HPI: 61.78
Rank: 16
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Couch Adams ranks 493 out of 7,765. Before him are Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855), Olivia Newton-John (1948), John Everett Millais (1829), John Bunyan (1628), Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660), and Daphne du Maurier (1907). After him are John Bonham (1948), Betty Williams (1943), Ronnie Wood (1947), Albert Finney (1936), John Barry (1933), and James Hutton (1726).
1855 - 1927
HPI: 64.63
Rank: 487
1948 - 2022
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 488
1829 - 1896
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 489
1628 - 1688
HPI: 64.62
Rank: 490
1660 - 1744
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 491
1907 - 1989
HPI: 64.61
Rank: 492
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 493
1948 - 1980
HPI: 64.58
Rank: 494
1943 - 2020
HPI: 64.55
Rank: 495
1947 - Present
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 496
1936 - 2019
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 497
1933 - 2011
HPI: 64.46
Rank: 498
1726 - 1797
HPI: 64.45
Rank: 499
Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Couch Adams ranks 8. Before him are John Napier (1550), George Boole (1815), Ada Lovelace (1815), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), Joan Clarke (1917), and Thomas Harriot (1560). After him are John Wallis (1616), G. H. Hardy (1877), Isaac Barrow (1631), Andrew Wiles (1953), Brook Taylor (1685), and Oliver Heaviside (1850).
1550 - 1617
HPI: 74.14
Rank: 2
1815 - 1864
HPI: 73.05
Rank: 3
1815 - 1852
HPI: 72.54
Rank: 4
1861 - 1947
HPI: 68.32
Rank: 5
1917 - 1996
HPI: 65.81
Rank: 6
1560 - 1621
HPI: 65.37
Rank: 7
1819 - 1892
HPI: 64.59
Rank: 8
1616 - 1703
HPI: 64.27
Rank: 9
1877 - 1947
HPI: 64.24
Rank: 10
1631 - 1677
HPI: 63.97
Rank: 11
1953 - Present
HPI: 62.70
Rank: 12
1685 - 1731
HPI: 62.62
Rank: 13
1850 - 1925
HPI: 62.41
Rank: 14