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 151,652 page views. His biography is available in 56 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). John Couch Adams is the 104th most popular mathematician (up from 117th in 2019), the 486th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 550th in 2019) and the 9th 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 104 out of 828. Before him are Josef Stefan, Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, Leopold Kronecker, Stefan Banach, Thomas Harriot, and Christopher Clavius. After him are Jean-Victor Poncelet, Meton of Athens, Edward Norton Lorenz, Hippocrates of Chios, Lodovico Ferrari, and Gabriel Cramer.
1835 - 1893
HPI: 73.27
Rank: 98
1804 - 1851
HPI: 73.26
Rank: 99
1823 - 1891
HPI: 73.21
Rank: 100
1892 - 1945
HPI: 73.17
Rank: 101
1560 - 1621
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 102
1538 - 1612
HPI: 73.11
Rank: 103
1819 - 1892
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 104
1788 - 1867
HPI: 72.57
Rank: 105
500 BC - Present
HPI: 72.56
Rank: 106
1917 - 2008
HPI: 72.52
Rank: 107
470 BC - 410 BC
HPI: 72.50
Rank: 108
1522 - 1565
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 109
1704 - 1752
HPI: 72.44
Rank: 110
Among people born in 1819, John Couch Adams ranks 16. Before him are Báb, John Ruskin, Hippolyte Fizeau, George Eliot, Maria II of Portugal, and Franz von Suppé. After him are William T. G. Morton, Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, George V of Hanover, Theodor Fontane, Gottfried Keller, and Louise Marie Thérèse of Artois. Among people deceased in 1892, John Couch Adams ranks 9. Before him are Bahá'u'lláh, Ernest Renan, Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Thomas Cook, Richard Owen, and Édouard Lalo. After him are Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Rudolf von Jhering, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, and Charles Spurgeon.
1819 - 1850
HPI: 76.48
Rank: 10
1819 - 1900
HPI: 75.14
Rank: 11
1819 - 1896
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 12
1819 - 1880
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 13
1819 - 1853
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 14
1819 - 1895
HPI: 73.50
Rank: 15
1819 - 1892
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 16
1819 - 1868
HPI: 72.60
Rank: 17
1819 - 1901
HPI: 72.36
Rank: 18
1819 - 1878
HPI: 71.48
Rank: 19
1819 - 1898
HPI: 71.09
Rank: 20
1819 - 1890
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 21
1819 - 1864
HPI: 69.48
Rank: 22
1817 - 1892
HPI: 77.73
Rank: 3
1823 - 1892
HPI: 76.91
Rank: 4
1808 - 1892
HPI: 75.54
Rank: 5
1808 - 1892
HPI: 74.54
Rank: 6
1804 - 1892
HPI: 74.29
Rank: 7
1823 - 1892
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 8
1819 - 1892
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 9
1837 - 1892
HPI: 72.78
Rank: 10
1818 - 1892
HPI: 72.12
Rank: 11
1809 - 1892
HPI: 71.71
Rank: 12
1864 - 1892
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 13
1827 - 1892
HPI: 71.01
Rank: 14
1834 - 1892
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 15
Among people born in United Kingdom, John Couch Adams ranks 486 out of 6,924. Before him are Vivienne Westwood (1941), James Hutton (1726), Thomas Harriot (1560), Peter Brook (1925), Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1767), and Thomas Savery (1650). After him are John Bonham (1948), Austen Chamberlain (1863), Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), G. E. Moore (1873), Offa of Mercia (800), and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1660).
1941 - Present
HPI: 73.14
Rank: 480
1726 - 1797
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 481
1560 - 1621
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 482
1925 - Present
HPI: 73.10
Rank: 483
1767 - 1820
HPI: 73.07
Rank: 484
1650 - 1715
HPI: 73.03
Rank: 485
1819 - 1892
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 486
1948 - 1980
HPI: 73.01
Rank: 487
1863 - 1937
HPI: 73.00
Rank: 488
1090 - 1155
HPI: 72.99
Rank: 489
1873 - 1958
HPI: 72.97
Rank: 490
800 - 796
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 491
1660 - 1744
HPI: 72.96
Rank: 492
Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, John Couch Adams ranks 9. Before him are Ada Lovelace (1815), George Boole (1815), Alfred North Whitehead (1861), G. H. Hardy (1877), Isaac Barrow (1631), and Thomas Harriot (1560). After him are John Wallis (1616), Brook Taylor (1685), John Horton Conway (1937), Robert Grosseteste (1175), William Oughtred (1574), and Andrew Wiles (1953).
1815 - 1852
HPI: 78.78
Rank: 3
1815 - 1864
HPI: 78.24
Rank: 4
1861 - 1947
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 5
1877 - 1947
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 6
1631 - 1677
HPI: 73.51
Rank: 7
1560 - 1621
HPI: 73.12
Rank: 8
1819 - 1892
HPI: 73.02
Rank: 9
1616 - 1703
HPI: 72.39
Rank: 10
1685 - 1731
HPI: 72.19
Rank: 11
1937 - 2020
HPI: 72.16
Rank: 12
1175 - 1253
HPI: 71.87
Rank: 13
1574 - 1660
HPI: 71.53
Rank: 14
1953 - Present
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 15