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Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier

French astronomer (1811-1877).

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Place of Burial

Montparnasse Cemetery

Burial Plot Reference

:Div. 11

Coordinate Location

: 48.8372°N 2.3276°E

Place of Death

:

Occupation

Place of Birth

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Country of Citizenship

Educated At

Lycée Louis-Le-Grand

Reason for Deprecated Rank

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École Polytechnique

(1831 - 1833)

: 1831

: 1833

University of Caen Normandy

Reason for Deprecated Rank

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Incorrect Value

Muséum National D'histoire Naturelle

(1833 - 1836)

: 1833

: 1836

(1819 - 1827)

: 1819

: 1827

Lycée François De Malherbe

(1827 - 1830)

: 1827

: 1830

Date of Birth

3/11/1811

Date of Death

9/23/1877

Member Of

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Société Philomathique De Paris

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

French Academy of Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Russian Academy of Sciences

Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Accademia Nazionale Delle Scienze Detta Dei XL

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities

Academy of Sciences of Turin

(12/13/1846 - )

: 12/13/1846

Göttingen Academy of Sciences

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Member of the French National Assembly

(1849 - 1851)

: 1849

: 1851

Member of the General Council

(1852 - 1869)

: 1852

: 1869

Second Empire Senator

(1852 - 1870)

: 1852

: 1870

(1854 - 1870)

Organization Directed by the Office or Position

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Paris Observatory, PSL University

:

François Arago

:

Charles-Eugène Delaunay

: 1854

: 1870

(1873 - 1877)

Organization Directed by the Office or Position

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Paris Observatory, PSL University

:

Charles-Eugène Delaunay

:

Ernest Amédée Barthélemy Mouchez

: 1873

: 1877

Award Received

(1846)

Award Rationale

: For his investigations relative to the disturbances of Uranus by which he proved the existence and predicted the place of the new Planet; the Council considering such prediction confirmed as it was by the immediate discovery of the Planet to be one of the

: 1846

Officer of the Legion of Honour

(1846)

: 1846

Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

(1868)

: 1868

: 1876

Concours Général

(1831)

: 1831

Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

(1847)

: 1847

Foreign Member of the Royal Society

(2/4/1847)

: 2/4/1847

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Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

Described by Source

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Nordisk Familjebok

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978)

:Леверье Урбен Жан Жозеф

Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary

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The Nuttall Encyclopædia

Subject Named As

:Leverrier, Urban Jean Joseph

Library of the World's Best Literature

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)

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Encyclopædia Britannica 11th Edition

Statement Is Subject Of

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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Leverrier, Urbain Jean Joseph

The New Student's Reference Work

Statement Is Subject Of

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The New Student's Reference Work/Leverrier, Urbain Jean J.

Astronomers: A Biographical Reference

Influenced By

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Commons Gallery

Urbain Le Verrier

Employer

École Polytechnique

(1836 - 1854)

: 1836

: 1854

Paris Observatory, PSL University

(1854 - 1877)

: 1854

: 1877

University of Paris

(1847 - 1854)

: 1847

: 1854

Work Location

Field of Work

Celestial Mechanics

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Sex or Gender

Family Name

Spouse

Lucille Clotilde Choquet

Student

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Student Of

Birth Name

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier

Notable Work

Discovery of Neptune

Faddeev–LeVerrier Algorithm

Relative

Charles Adrien Choquet

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