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Born July 13, 1822 ā€¢ Berlin ā€¢ Prussia
Died June 14, 1875 (aged 52) ā€¢ Copenhagen ā€¢ Denmark
Subjects Of Study Neptune
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Johann Gottfried Galle
German astronomer
Peirce, Benjamin
Benjamin Peirce
American mathematician and astronomer
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Urbain-Jean-Joseph Le Verrier
French astronomer
Lassell, William
William Lassell
British astronomer
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James Challis
British astronomer
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John Couch Adams
British astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Engraving portrait of Carl Friedrich Gauss wearing a cap and formal 19th-century clothing, with detailed shading around his face and upper body.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
German mathematician
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von
Franz Xaver von Zach
German-Hungarian astronomer
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Regiomontanus
German mathematician
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Maria Kirch
German astronomer
Caroline Herschel
Caroline Herschel
British-German astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, detail of a lithograph by H. Mitreuter after a portrait by C.A. Jensen, 1844
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve
Russian astronomer
August Ferdinand Mƶbius, detail from an engraving by an unknown artist.
August Ferdinand Mƶbius
German mathematician and astronomer
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Johann Daniel Titius
Prussian astronomer
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Reinhard Genzel
German astronomer
Olbers, detail from an engraving
Wilhelm Olbers
German astronomer

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