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Johann Gottfried Galle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Galle was born in Saxony, Prussia, and educated at Berlin. He worked at the Berlin Observatory until 1851, when he became professor of astronomy and director of the Breslau Observatory (now in Wroclaw, Poland). ... Galle, Johann Gottfried (1812-1910)
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Though Galle was the first to observe Neptune, its discovery is usually credited to John Adams (who made an earlier calculation) and Leverrier. Galle also discovered the crêpe ring of Saturn (1838) and suggested a method for determining the scale of the Solar System based on the observation of asteroids.
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Galle, Johann Gottfried. Galle, Johann Gottfried. Information about Galle, Johann Gottfried in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... Galle was born at Pabsthaus, near Wittenberg, Prussia, and educated at Berlin. He worked at the Berlin Observatory until 1851, when he became professor...
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Galle, Johann Gottfried | Send-To | Print | More; Category: Social Science | 2308 views; [Texts | Images | Related Terms | Related Web Sites] ... Though Galle was the first to observe Neptune, its discovery is usually credited to Adams (who made an earlier calculation) and Le Verrier.
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Johann Gottfried Galle (June 9, 1812 in Radis, Saxony-Anhalt – July 10, 1910 in Potsdam, Brandenburg) was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, with the help of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune, and know what he was looking at (September 23, 1846). He...
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Galle was then a member of the staff of the Berlin Observatory and had discovered three comets. In 1851 he became professor of astronomy at Breslau and director of the observatory there. His particular field of research was meteorology ... Yahoo! Education > Reference > Encyclopedia > Galle, Johann Gottfried...
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Encyclopedia article about Galle, Johann Gottfried. Information about Galle, Johann Gottfried in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... . Galle was then a member of the staff of the Berlin Observatory and had discovered three comets. In 1851 he became professor of astronomy...
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