Urbain Le Verrier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Urbain Le Verrier

French astronomer

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1811

Place of Birth: Saint-Lô, Normandy, France

Date of Death: 23-Sep-1877

Profession: astronomer, politician, mathematician, meteorologist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier FRS (FOR) HFRSE (French: [y?b?~ ??~ ??z?f l? v??je]; 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.
The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Kepler and Newton.
Le Verrier sent the coordinates to Johann Gottfried Galle in Berlin, asking him to verify.
Galle found Neptune in the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position.
The discovery of Neptune is widely regarded as a dramatic validation of celestial mechanics, and is one of the most remarkable moments of 19th-century science.