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John Couch Adams FRS, British Mathematician and Astronomer, Born

June 5, 1819

England

John Couch Adams FRS, British mathematician and astronomer, born

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.