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Specializzato nella meccanica celeste, lavorò all' Osservatorio di Parigi per la maggior parte della sua vita. È famoso soprattutto per il suo contributo alla scoperta di Nettuno, usando solo calcoli matematici e osservazioni astronomiche precedenti.
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.
23 set 2011 · Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier. Quick Info. Born. 11 March 1811. Saint-Lô, France. Died. 23 September 1877. Paris, France. Summary. Urbain Le Verrier is best known for the calculations which led to the discovery of Neptune. View seven larger pictures. Biography.
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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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. (1811—1877) French mathematician. Quick Reference. (1811–1877) French astronomer. Born 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.
22 set 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.
