Birth of Urbain Le Verrier11 March 1811
Birth of Urbain Le Verrier
Historical person
Urbain Le Verrier Biography
Historical biography and chronological timeline for Urbain Le Verrier, based on 6 World History Database records associated with France.
6 records1811–18776 events1 places
Chronological biography
1811
1846
Prediction of Neptune31 August 1846
Predicts Neptune's position from gravitational perturbations in Uranus's orbit.
1859
Mercury Perihelion Anomaly1859
Reports the unexplained advance of Mercury's perihelion, later explained by general relativity.
Orbit of Mercury1859
Le Verrier was the first to report that the slow precession of Mercurys orbit around the Sun could not be completely explained by Newtonian mechanics and perturbations by the known planets
1860
Vulcan Hypothesis1860
Le Verrier proposes an unseen planet inside Mercury's orbit as one possible explanation for the unexplained advance of Mercury's perihelion.
1877
Death of Urbain Le Verrier23 September 1877
Death of Urbain Le Verrier
Titles and roles
Mathematician
Record provenance
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