Talk:John Couch Adams
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[edit] Age
this article suggests he died at the age of 10? Kingturtle 01:00 5 Jun 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Neptune controversy
The "astronomy" section is characterized by highly colorful language in praise of Adams, and fails to utilize recent reconsiderations of Adams' role in the discovery of Neptune. See this Scientific American article, for instance. RandomCritic 10:32, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
- I only came here because I was going to write the William Grylls Adams article but find this article sadly neglected. I am going to rewrite the Neptune stuff using the entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography by Roger Hutchins dated 2004. I will then go through the Scientific American article and interpolate any variances. That should be enough to get the POV tag off.Cutler 10:21, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
- Excellent, thank you - you've already made a very good start. DuncanHill 10:22, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
- I have now interpolated stuff from Scientific American article though I did yearn more detail. TBH, I found it thin and tendentious stuff so I have probably given it more authority here than I truly believe it deaserves but I shall leave it to others to trim if they think it appropriate. There is quite a lot of other stuff on his other work that is worth inclusion so I think ultimately the Neptune stuff needs to be shipped off to a separate article. I have taken the POV tag off so please discuss here. Cutler 15:28, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
- I have started putting in stuff from Kollerstrom which is actually much more bad news for Adams's reputation tham Sheehan. Cutler 18:30, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
In another part of wikipedia (see Dennis Rawlins) we can read that it was not Adams, that discoverede neptune. Jan E —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.162.150.154 (talk) 21:58, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Is there really a controversy? Not only was Adams 12 degrees off the mark, his "discovery" came after Le Verrier's... I do not see how he can get any credit. 193.132.242.1 (talk) 11:02, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
