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Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier (French: [yʁbɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ ʒɔzɛf lə vɛʁje]; 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.
Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier (born March 11, 1811, Saint-Lô, Fr.—died Sept. 23, 1877, Paris) was a French astronomer who predicted by mathematical means the existence of the planet Neptune.
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Sep 23, 2011 · Urbain Le Verrier is best known for the calculations which led to the discovery of Neptune.
Le Verrier discovered the planet Neptune by calculating its position and mass from the orbit of Uranus. He also studied the motion of Mercury and the perihelion advance, and was director of the Paris Observatory.
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier was born in 1811 at Saint-Lô, France. At the age of 26, he was appointed a teacher of astronomy at the Ecole Polytechnic Paris. Immediately after his appointment he began an intensive study of the motion of Mercury.
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier ( French: [ yʁbɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ ʒɔzɛf lə vɛʁje]; 11 March 1811 – 23 September 1877) was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.
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Sep 22, 2021 · By 1845, Uranus had completed nearly one full revolution around the Sun and astronomers Urbain Jean-Joseph Le Verrier in Paris and John Couch Adams in Cambridge, England, independently calculated the location of this postulated planet.
