References for John Couch Adams

1. M Grosser, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]
3. Biography by Roger Hutchins, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

Books:

4. W G Adams (ed), The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams (2 vols.) (Cambridge, 1896-1900).
5. J L E Dreyer and H H Turner (eds.), History of the Royal Astronomical Society (London, 1923).
6. H M Harrison, Voyager in time and space : the life of John Couch Adams, Cambridge astronomer (Lewes, 1994).

Articles:

7. N Foster, John Couch Adams, the astronomer, Astronomy Now 3 (1989), 34-37.
8. J W L Glaisher, Biography of John Couch Adams, in The Scientific Papers of John Couch Adams I (Cambridge, 1896), xv-xlviii.
9. D W Hughes, J C Adams, Cambridge and Neptune, Notes and Records of the Royal Society 50 (1996), 245-248.
10. J E Littlewood, A Mathematician's Miscellany (London, 1953), 116-134.
11. W M Smart, John Couch Adams and the Discovery of Neptune, Occasional Notes of the Royal Astronomical Society 2 (1947), 33-88.

February 2005