On this day in 1819 - June 5th - British mathematician and astronomer John Couch Adams was born.
His most famous achievement was predicting the existence and position of Neptune, using only mathematics. But Urbain LeVerrier had independently made the calculations and the planet was discovered using LeVerrier's calculations. (Who discovered Neptune?)
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