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Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, right, received by King Louis-Philippe, left, at The Tuileries, Paris, France, after his discovery of the planet Neptune in 1846. Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, 1811 ? 1877. French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics. From Les Merveilles de la Science, published c. 1870
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