Johann Gottfried Galle (1812-1910)


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Name (English): Johann Gottfried Galle
Short name: Johann Gottfried Galle
Year of birth: 1812
Year of death: 1910
Short Description: "Johann Gottfried Galle (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) 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." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.11.2019)
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[Last update: 2019/11/05]