J. C. Adams

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J. C. Adams was a 19th-century British mathematician and astronomer best known for his role in the prediction of the planet Neptune.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
awardReceived Copley Medal
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society NERFINISHED
burialPlace St Giles’ Cemetery, Cambridge NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath stomach hemorrhage
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
dateOfBirth 1819-06-05
dateOfDeath 1892-01-21
educatedAt St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED
Cambridge University
surface form: University of Cambridge
ethnicGroup English
familyName Adams NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork astronomy
celestial mechanics
mathematics
givenName Couch NERFINISHED
John NERFINISHED
hasAcademicAdvisor George Biddell Airy NERFINISHED
hasHonorificEponym Adams Prize NERFINISHED
Adams crater on Mars NERFINISHED
Adams crater on the Moon NERFINISHED
hasWorkLocation Cambridge NERFINISHED
influenced 19th-century astronomy
development of celestial mechanics
knownFor independent prediction of the planet Neptune
work on perturbations of Uranus
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Royal Astronomical Society NERFINISHED
Royal Society
namedAfter John Couch (maternal grandfather) NERFINISHED
notableWork prediction of the existence and position of Neptune
placeOfBirth Cornwall NERFINISHED
England
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placeOfDeath Cambridge NERFINISHED
Cambridgeshire NERFINISHED
England
positionHeld Lowndean Professor of Astronomy and Geometry at the University of Cambridge NERFINISHED
director of the Cambridge Observatory
sexOrGender male
studied orbit of Uranus
perturbations of planetary orbits

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Adams Prize namedAfter J. C. Adams