Leverrier
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Wholly independent of each other John Couch Adams, young Englishman, and Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier, young Frenchman, did the mathematical work.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first recommended sign for Neptune was a crossbarred L with a planet suspended for Leverrier.
From Time Magazine Archive
In desperation a French astronomer named Leverrier decided that the rest of the shift must be due to an unseen planet even closer to the sun than Mercury.
From Time Magazine Archive
He and Leverrier announced the discovery, were given banquets and medals for their find.
From Time Magazine Archive
Neptune was discovered from the perturbations of Uranus by sheer calculation, carried on simultaneously and independently by Leverrier in Paris, and Adams in Cambridge.
From Pioneers of Science by Lodge, Oliver, Sir
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