Urbain Le Verrier

Details

Instance of

human

Born

11 March 1811

Died

23 September 1877

Place of birth

Saint-Lô

Place of death

Paris

Sex or gender

male

Given name

Urbain

Family name

Le Verrier

Spouse

Lucille Clotilde Choquet

Field of work

celestial mechanics, astronomy

Occupation

astronomer, mathematician, politician, meteorologist, writer

Position held

member of the French National Assembly, member of the general council, Second Empire senator, director, director

Citizenship

France

Awards

Copley Medal, Officer of the Legion of Honour, Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, Concours général, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Foreign Member of the Royal Society, 72 names on the Eiffel Tower

birth name

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier

described by source

Nordisk familjebok, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work, Astronomers: A Biographical Reference

educated at

École polytechnique, Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Q125840804, Lycée François de Malherbe

employer

École polytechnique, Paris Observatory, PSL University, University of Paris

influenced by

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

languages spoken, written or signed

French

member of

Société Philomathique de Paris, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, French Academy of Sciences, Royal Society, 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, Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony

notable work

discovery of Neptune, Faddeev–LeVerrier algorithm

place of burial

Montparnasse Cemetery

student

Émile Gautier

student of

Louis Richard

topic's main category

Category:Urbain Le Verrier

work location

Paris

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