John Couch Adams FRS, British Mathematician and Astronomer, Born
Section: 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.