Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer and mathematician
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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Born: March 11, 1811, Saint-Lô, France
Died: September 23, 1877 (age 66 years), Paris, France
Discovered: Neptune
Known for: Discovery of Neptune; Euler's three-body problem; Faddeev–LeVerrier algorithm
Education: École Polytechnique and Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Awards: Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1868, 1876) and Copley Medal (1846)
Spouse: Marie Lucile Clotilde Choquet (m. 1837)