Johann Gottfried Galle
Johann Gottfried Galle
Johann Gottfried Galle was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify. Galle found Neptune in the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position. The discovery of Neptune is widely regarded as a dramatic validation of celestial mechanics, and is one of the most remarkable moments of 19th-century science.
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Date of Birth
June 9th, 1812
Age
211
Birth Place
Germany, Saxony-Anhalt, Kemberg
Date of Death
July 10th, 1910
Died Aged
98
Star Sign
Gemini
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