Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic (died 1910)

Johann Gottfried Galle

German astronomer (1812–1910)

Johann Gottfried Galle was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had…