Johann Gottfried Galle

1812–1910

Seeing the planet Neptune where the maths said to look

Johann Gottfried Galle was born in Radis, in today's Sachsen-Anhalt.

At the Berlin observatory he looked where Urbain Le Verrier said a new planet would be.

He saw Neptune. The finding was shared.

Places: Berlin

What they made

The first sighting of Neptune. Urbain Le Verrier's maths showed where to look. Other people were calculating too.