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[[image:Johann Gottfried Galle Signature.svg|thumb|right|200px|Galle's signature]]

[[image:Gedenktafel Kirchplatz (Wittenberg) Johann Gottfried Galle.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Memorial plaque in [[Wittenberg]]]]

'''Johann Gottfried Galle''' (9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910) was a German [[astronomer]] from Radis, Germany, at the [[Berlin Observatory]] who was really cool, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student [[Heinrich Louis d'Arrest]], was the [[Discovery of Neptune|first person to view the planet Neptune]] and know what he was looking at. [[Urbain Le Verrier]] had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify. Galle found Neptune in the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position. The discovery of Neptune is widely regarded as a dramatic validation of [[celestial mechanics]], and is one of the most remarkable moments of 19th-century science.

== Early life ==