Urbain Le Verrier
French astronomer (1811-1877)
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French astronomer who predicted Neptune's existence and location purely through math, no telescope required. Le Verrier crunched the numbers on orbital irregularities and nailed it in 1846.
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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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