Lalande Prize
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The Lalande Prize was an award for scientific advances in astronomy, given from 1802 until 1970 by the French Academy of Sciences.
Jérôme Lalande
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, and physicist, who contributed to many fields in mathematics and science. His mathematical contributions spanned the bran
Lalande Prize
…1808: Claude-Louis Mathieu 1809: Carl Friedrich Gauss 1810: Siméon Denis Poisson…
Portrait by Christian Albrecht Jensen, 1840 (copy from Gottlieb Biermann, 1887)
Birthplace in Brunswick (destroyed in World War II)
Gauss's home as student in Göttingen
Old Göttingen observatory, c. 1800