John Couch Adams

Le Verrier and an English undergraduate, John Couch Adams, independently took up the task of identifying and locating this something based only on its influence on Uranus.

Michael Kaplan: The Discovery of Neptune 2009

Shy John Couch Adams had done the sums that showed that the orbit of Uranus was being affected by a force that could only be the gravitational field of Another Planet Nobody Had Yet Discovered.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Shy John Couch Adams had done the sums that showed that the orbit of Uranus was being affected by a force that could only be the gravitational field of Another Planet Nobody Had Yet Discovered.

American Connections James Burke 2007

Further examples of in - ternational cooperation in the peaceful investigation of our cosmos were provided by corrections of Lever - rier's computations by John Couch Adams in England and Benjamin Peirce at Harvard.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968

The general predication of a trans-Uranian planet was made by Bessel, the great Königsberg astronomer, in 1840; the analysis that revealed its exact location was undertaken, half a decade later, by two independent workers -- John Couch Adams, just graduated senior wrangler at Cambridge, England, and U.J. J. Leverrier, the leading French mathematician of his generation.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume III: Modern development of the physical sciences 1904

In 1841 the difficulties of the problem presented by these residual perturbations of Uranus excited the imagination of a young student, an undergraduate of St. John's College, Cambridge -- John Couch Adams by name -- and he determined to have a try at it as soon as he was through his Tripos.

Pioneers of Science Oliver Lodge 1895

In 1843 John Couch Adams came out Senior Wrangler at Cambridge, and was free to undertake the research which as an undergraduate he had set himself -- to see whether the disturbances of Uranus could be explained by assuming a certain orbit, and position in that orbit, of

History of Astronomy George Forbes 1892

One of the most interesting to members of the College is the following note by John Couch Adams: --

St. John's College, Cambridge Robert Forsyth Scott 1891

John Couch Adams, however, had no sooner taken his degree, which he did as senior wrangler in January, 1843, than he set resolutely to work, and on October 21, 1845, was able to communicate to the Astronomer

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

The other part was Professor John Couch Adams, the astronomer of the University at Cambridge, England.

Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World Various 1870