biography
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| lived:
| (1819–92)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Laneast, Cornwall, SW England, UK. He studied at St John's College, Cambridge, and in 1843 became fellow and mathematical tutor there. In 1845 he deduced mathematically the existence and location of the planet Neptune, his prediction occurring almost simultaneously with that of the French astronomer, Leverrier. Adams was appointed professor of astronomy at Cambridge in 1858, and was director of the Cambridge Observatory from 1861. |
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