Astronomer (5-Jun-1819 — 21-Jan-1892)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

William Grylls Adams (editor). The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams. Cambridge University Press. 1896-1900. 502pp. + 646pp. With a memoir by J. W. L. Glaisher.

Harold Spencer Jones. John Couch Adams and the Discovery of Neptune. Cambridge University Press. 1947. 42pp.

William M. Smart. John Couch Adams and the Discovery of Neptune. 1947. 56pp. Originally, No. 11 of Occasional Notes of the RAS.

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Library of Congress Name Authority [link]

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

6. Random House Dictionary of World Biography (p.4)

7. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.10)

8. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Ideas (p.7)

9. Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology (p.227a)

10. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography (p.2)

11. A Biographical Dictionary of Scientists (p.2)

12. Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientists (p.2)

13. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.4)

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