Johann Gottfried Galle

Johann Gottfried Galle (June 9, 1812 – July 10, 1910) was a German astronomer at the Berlin Observatory who, with help from Urbain Le Verrier, sighted Neptune on September 23, 1846.

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He had started to work as an assistant to Johann Franz Encke in 1835 immediately following the completion of the Berlin observatory.

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in 1851 he moved to Breslau (now Wroc?aw) to become professor of astronomy and the director of the local observatory.

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Throughout his career he studied comets, and in 1894 (with the help of his son Andreas Galle) he published a list with 414 comets. He himself had previously discovered three comets in the short span from December 2,1839 to March 6,1840.

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Craters on the Moon and Mars, and a ring of Neptune, were named in his honor.

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