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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.