John Couch Adams F.R.S., mathematician and astronomer, has a memorial in the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey, near to memorials to Darwin and G.G. Stokes and not far from Newton's grave. It ...

Adams and Le Verrier, applied their unrivalled skill to deduce independently the position of a new planet the gravitational attraction of which on Uranus, they confidently believed, was ...

LAWRENCE HOUSE MUSEUM, LAUNCESTON. This striking bust shows the young astronomer John Couch Adams, who was jointly credited with the discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846. He predicted its ...