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Johann Gottfried Galle

1812 - 1910

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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, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify. Galle found Neptune in the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johann Gottfried Galle has received more than 200,852 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Johann Gottfried Galle is the 31st most popular astronomer, the 465th most popular biography from Germany (down from 424th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Astronomer.

Johann Gottfried Galle is most famous for his discovery of Neptune in 1846.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Johann Gottfried Galle ranks 31 out of 531. Before him are Johannes Hevelius, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Jamshīd al-Kāshī, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Avempace, and William Alfred Fowler. After him are Fred Hoyle, Johann Bayer, Caroline Herschel, Wilhelm Schickard, Michel Mayor, and Adolphe Quetelet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1812, Johann Gottfried Galle ranks 4. Before him are Charles Dickens, Kaspar Hauser, and Théodore Rousseau. After him are Alexander Herzen, Truganini, Ivan Goncharov, Louise of Orléans, Moses Hess, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Ascanio Sobrero, and Maria Cristina of Savoy. Among people deceased in 1910, Johann Gottfried Galle ranks 16. Before him are O. Henry, Mily Balakirev, Marius Petipa, Luigi Lucheni, Léon Walras, and Chulalongkorn. After him are Giovanni Schiaparelli, Huo Yuanjia, Elizabeth Blackwell, Pauline Viardot, An Jung-geun, and Jules Renard.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Johann Gottfried Galle ranks 465 out of 6,142. Before him are Franz Boas (1858), Emil Nolde (1867), Jean Paul (1763), Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld (1911), Wilhelm Maybach (1846), and Anna Magdalena Bach (1701). After him are Samuel von Pufendorf (1632), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Henri Nestlé (1814), Hedwig of Silesia (1174), Wilhelm Mohnke (1911), and Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium (1876).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In Germany

Among astronomers born in Germany, Johann Gottfried Galle ranks 4. Before him are Johannes Kepler (1571), William Herschel (1738), and Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758). After him are Johann Bayer (1572), Caroline Herschel (1750), Wilhelm Schickard (1592), Simon Marius (1573), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (1822), Max Wolf (1863), and Karl Ludwig Harding (1765).

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