John Couch Adams
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John Couch Adams was a British mathematician and astronomer. He was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge.
Adams c. 1870
John Couch Adams
The great Leonid shower storm of 1833
Portrait of John Couch Adams by Hubert von Herkomer, c. 1888
Urbain Le Verrier
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Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathema
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…discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton. At the same time, but unknown to each other, the same calculations were made by Urbain Le Verrier. Le Verrier sent his co-ordinates to Berlin Observatory astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle, who confirmed the existence of the planet on 23 September…
Le Verrier colored
Statue of Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory
LeVerrier's autograph
Le Verrier's grave