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John Couch Adams
John Couch Adams was a British mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge.
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science · British mathematician and astronomer (1819–1892) · mathematician · astronomer · university teacher · also John Couch Adams, Adams
Born 5 June 1819 · Died 21 January 1892 · Q20015
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1998· 1 entry
Hampering much historical research in the subject
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1892· 1 entry
Died 1892-01-21.
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1884· 2 entries
Attended the International Meridian Conference as a delegate for Britain
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When he also attended the meetings of the British Association at Montreal and of the American Association at Philadelphia
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1881· 1 entry
But he preferred to pursue his teaching and research in Cambridge
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1874· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1874–1876).
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1872· 1 entry
Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of Portsmouth, donated his private collection of Newton's papers to Cambridge University
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1866· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1866).
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1863· 1 entry
Married Miss Eliza Bruce (1827–1919), of Dublin, who survived him and is buried with him
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1861· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1861–1891).
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1860· 1 entry
Adams duplicated his results without using a power series
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1859· 1 entry
Calculated the fourth-order term and duplicated Adams's result leading Adams to publish his own calculations for the fifth, sixth and seventh-order terms
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1858· 2 entries
Career landmark: Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry (1858–1892).
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Adams became professor of mathematics in the University of St Andrews, but lectured only for a session, before returning to Cambridge to take up the Lowndean professorship of astronomy and geometry
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1857· 1 entry
Career landmark: Regius Professor of Mathematics (1857–1858).
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1856· 1 entry
Plana admitted Adams's conclusions, claiming to have revised his own analysis and arrived at the same results
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1853· 1 entry
Adams published a paper showing that, while tangential terms vanish in the first-order theory of Laplace, they become substantial when quadratic terms are admitted
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1852· 2 entries
Published new and accurate tables of the Moon's parallax, which superseded Johann Karl Burckhardt's, and supplied corrections to the theories of Marie-Charles Damoiseau, Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana, and Philippe Gus
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And the existing statutes did not permit his re-election
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1851· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Royal Astronomical Society (1851–1853).
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1849· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1849).
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Awarded Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1849).
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1848· 1 entry
Won Copley Medal (1848).
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1847· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1847).
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1843· 4 entries
Awarded Smith's Prize (1843).
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As senior wrangler and first Smith's prizewinner of his year
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Studied at St John's College (1839–1843).
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Adams was elected fellow of his college and spent the summer vacation in Cornwall calculating the first of six iterations
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1836· 1 entry
His mother inherited a small estate at Badharlick and his promise as a mathematician induced his parents to send him to the University of Cambridge
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1835· 1 entry
From Landulph and the following year started to make his own astronomical calculations, predictions and observations, engaging in private tutoring to finance his activities
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1821· 1 entry
Alexis Bouvard had published astronomical tables of the orbit of Uranus, making predictions of future positions based on Newton's laws of motion and gravitation
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1820· 1 entry
At the insistence of the Académie des sciences, Damoiseau, Plana and Francesco Carlini revisited Laplace's work, investigating quadratic and higher-order perturbing terms, and obtained similar results, again addressing o
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1819· 1 entry
Born 1819-06-05.
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