Adams, John Couch, 1819-1892.
Items in various series of The Royal Society, 1847-1887.
Materials by or relating to John Couch Adams can be found in the following series: Lubbock Letters: 27 letters. Referees Reports: reports by J. C. Adams on papers by (i) William Thomson; (ii) W. H. L. Russell; (iii) A. H. Curtis; (iv) W. J. M. Rankine; (v) J. South; (vi) T. A. Hirst; (vii) Breen; (viii) J. A. Broun; (ix) M. W. Crofton; (x) G. H. Darwin; (xi) E. J. Stone; (xii) C. Chambers; (xiii) W. D. Niven. Herschel Letters: 8 letters to J. F. W. Herschel. Miscellaneous Correspondence: 3 letters to the Royal Society. Manuscripts (General): 2 letters to Walter White; 1 letter to R. W. Fox in the Fox Letters; 1 letter to Edward Sabine in the Sabine Letters. Miscellaneous Manuscripts: 1 letter to the Royal Society. Philosophical Transactions: 1 paper.
Educated at St. John's College, Cambridge and graduated B. A. 1843 as Senior Wrangler and lst Smith's prizeman. Fellow of St. Johns. Then undertook to determine the cause of the perturbations of Uranus and left the results at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich 1845, but his discovery was anticipated by Urban J. J. Le Verrier (for. Mem. R. S. 1847) in July 1846. Le Verrier received the Copley Medal 1846 and Adams 1848. Lowndean Professor of Astronomy, Cambridge, 1858. Director of Cambridge Observatory 1861. Brother of William Grylls Adams. F.R.S. 1872.
Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845-1912.
Herschel, John F. W. (John Frederick William), Sir, 1792-1871.
Hirst, Thomas Archer, 1830-1892.
Rankine, William John Macquorn, 1820-1872.
Sabine, Edward, Sir, 1788-1883
Lubbock, J. W. (John William), Sir, 1803-1865.
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Breen.
Broun, John Allan, 1842-1878.
Chambers, C.
Crofton, M. W.
Curtis, A. H.
Fox, R. W.
Niven, W. D.
Russell, W. H. L.
South, J.
Stone, Edward James, 1831-1897.
White, Walter.
Thomson, William.
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