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Urbain Le Verrier
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.
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science · French astronomer and mathematician (1811–1877) · astronomer · mathematician · politician · meteorologist · writer · also Urbain Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, U.-J. (Urbain J.) Le Verrier, Urban Jean Joseph Leverrier, Verrier
Born 11 March 1811 · Died 23 September 1877 · Q104154
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1877· 1 entry
Died 1877-09-23.
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1873· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1873–1877).
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1868· 1 entry
Won Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1868).
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1859· 1 entry
Le Verrier was the first to report that the slow precession of Mercury's orbit around the Sun could not be completely explained by Newtonian mechanics and perturbations by the known planets
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1854· 1 entry
Career landmark: director (1854–1870).
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1852· 2 entries
Career landmark: member of the general council (1852–1869).
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Career landmark: Second Empire senator (1852–1870).
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1849· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the French National Assembly (1849–1851).
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1847· 4 entries
Awarded Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1847).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1847).
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Le Verrier took on the task to "
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Was elected to the American Philosophical Society
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1846· 4 entries
Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1846).
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Won Copley Medal (1846).
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“s unseen perturbing planet publicly to the French Academy on 31 August 1846, two days before Adams”
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Le Verrier became a member of the French Academy of Sciences, and in 1855 was elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1836· 1 entry
Studied at Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (1833–1836).
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1833· 1 entry
Studied at École polytechnique (1831–1833).
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1831· 1 entry
Awarded Concours général (1831).
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1830· 1 entry
Studied at Lycée François de Malherbe (1827–1830).
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1811· 1 entry
Born 1811-03-11.
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