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Born June 5, 1819 • England
Died January 21, 1892 (aged 72) • Cambridge • England
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1848)
Subjects Of Study Neptune
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Ernest William Brown
British mathematician and 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
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
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Heinrich Louis d’Arrest
German astronomer
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Johann Gottfried Galle
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
Simon Newcomb, c. 1905.
Simon Newcomb
American astronomer and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
Fred Hoyle
Sir Fred Hoyle
British mathematician and astronomer
Jeans
Sir James Jeans
British physicist and mathematician
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Arthur Cayley
Arthur Cayley
British mathematician
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Sir James Lighthill
British mathematician
Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles
British mathematician
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James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
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Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
British mathematician and physicist
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Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker
British mathematician

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