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Urbain Le Verrier. 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. Appointed a teacher of astronomy at the École Polytechnique (“Polytechnic School”), Paris, in 1837, Le Verrier first undertook an extensive study ...
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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.
Sep 23, 2011 · Biography. Urbain Le Verrier's father, Louis-Baptiste Le Verrier, was an estates manager and government official who had been born in 1779 in Carentan while his mother, Marie-Jeanne-Josephine de Baudre, had been born in 1783 in Baudre, just a few kilometres south of Saint-Lô. We note that Carentan is only about 23 km north east of Saint-Lô.
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier 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.
Sep 22, 2021 · However, effects from the gravity of a more distant planet could explain these perturbances. 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.
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Reference entries. (1811–1877) French astronomerBorn the son of a local government official in St. Lô, northern France, Le Verrier was educated at the Ecole Polytechnique and worked afterward on chemical problems with Joseph Gay-Lussac. He became a lecturer in astronomy at the Ecole Polytechnique in 1836 and succeeded Dominique Arago as ...
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