Heinrich Louis d'Arrest
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest | |
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 Heinrich Louis d'Arrest | |
| Born | 13 August 1822 Berlin |
| Died | 14 June 1875 (aged 52) |
| Nationality | German |
| Known for | Neptune |
| Awards | Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society Lalande Prize (1844) |
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| Doctoral students | Thorvald N. Thiele |
Heinrich Louis d'Arrest (13 August 1822 – 14 June 1875; German pronunciation: [daˈʁɛ] [1]) was a German astronomer, born in Berlin. His name is sometimes given as Heinrich Ludwig d'Arrest.
Biography
While still a student at the University of Berlin, d'Arrest was party to Johann Gottfried Galle's search for Neptune. On 23 September 1846, he suggested that a recently drawn chart of the sky, in the region of Urbain Le Verrier's predicted location, could be compared with the current sky to seek the displacement characteristic of a planet, as opposed to a stationary star. Neptune was discovered that very night.
D'Arrest's later work at the
In 1864 D'Arrest made an unsuccessful search for
He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1875.
In 1857, he married Auguste Emilie Möbius, daughter of his then-supervisor, August Ferdinand Möbius.[3] He died in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Honours
The crater
See also
References
- ^ Müller, August, Allgemeines Wörterbuch der Aussprache ausländischer Eigennamen (7th ed., 1903), p. 34.
- ^ Lord Lindsay, "Address," Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 39:4 (Feb. 14, 1879), p. 311.
- ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0. Retrieved August 22, 2012.
External links
Obituaries
- AN 86 (1875) 63/64[permanent dead link] (one paragraph, in German)
- MNRAS 36 (1876) 155
Further reading
- Dieke, Sally (1970). "Heinrich Louis D' Arrest". ISBN 0-684-10114-9.
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