John Couch Adams FRS, British Mathematician and Astronomer, Born

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John Couch Adams FRS, British mathematician and astronomer, born

John Couch Adams FRS, British Mathematician and Astronomer, Born

June 05, 1819

John Couch Adams (born June 5, 1819, Laneast, Cornwall, Eng.—died Jan. 21, 1892, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) was a British mathematician and astronomer, one of two people who independently discovered the planet Neptune.