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Noun Named Entity
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Urbain Le Verrier
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Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier FRS HFRSE was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics. Wikipedia
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Homo sapiens
AWARD RECEIVED
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Copley Medal
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Concours général
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Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP
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France
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
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Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Nordisk Familjebok
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The Nuttall Encyclopædia
EDUCATED AT
Ecole polytechnique
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Lycée Louis-le-Grand
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University of Caen Normandy
EMPLOYER
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Paris Observatory
ETHNIC GROUP
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French
FIELD OF WORK
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astronomy
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celestial mechanics
INFLUENCED BY
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Gay-Lussac
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
EN
French
MEMBER OF
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Royal Society
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Accademia nazionale delle scienze
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Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities
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Russian Academy of Sciences
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NATIVE LANGUAGE
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French
OCCUPATION
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astronomer
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mathematician
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politician
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meteorologist
PLACE OF BIRTH
Saint-lô
PLACE OF BURIAL
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Montparnasse Cemetery
PLACE OF DEATH
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Paris
POSITION HELD
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member of the departmental council
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Member of Parliament
RESIDENCE
Basse-Normandie
SEX OR GENDER
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male
WORK LOCATION
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Paris
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Urbain Le Verrier

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