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Galle, Johann Gottfried, 1812-1910

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Personal name headingGalle, Johann Gottfried, 1812-1910
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Associated countryGermany
Birth date1812-06-09
Death date1910-07-10
Field of activityAstronomy
Profession or occupationAstronomers
Found inUeber eine bestimmung der sonnen-parallaxe, 1875: title page (Johann Gottfried Galle)
OCLC, July 16, 2018 (hdgs: Galle, Johann Gottfried; Galle, Johann Gottfried, (1812-1910); Galle, Johann Gottfried, 1812-1910; Galle, Johann Gottfried, astronomo, 1812-1910)
Wikipedia, viewed July 16, 2018 (Johann Gottfried Galle 9 June 1812 - 10 July 1910 was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune)
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