187 Lamberta is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered by French (Corsican) astronomer Jérôme Eugène Coggia on April 11, 1878 and named after the astronomer Johann Heinrich Lambert.
Related to his work on galactic structure, he also developed a cosmological theory based on the work of Johann Heinrich Lambert.
Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728 – 1777), Swiss mathematician, physicist and astronomer
Johann Sebastian Bach | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Heinrich Himmler | Johann Strauss II | Heinrich Heine | St. Johann in Tirol | Heinrich Schütz | Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi | Heinrich von Kleist | Christopher Lambert | Adam Lambert | Johann Albert Fabricius | Johann Christian Bach | Heinrich Böll | Johann Georg Wagler | Paul Lambert | Johann Pachelbel | Johann Nepomuk Hummel | Johann Gottfried Herder | Heinrich Isaac | Johann Nestroy | Heinrich Marschner | Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza | Lambert | Johann Joachim Winckelmann | Johann Gottlieb Fichte | Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach | Woluwe-Saint-Lambert | Lambert Simnel | Johann Homann |
Before the 20th century, definitions of primality were inconsistent, and significant mathematicians such as Goldbach, Lambert, Legendre, Cayley, and Kronecker wrote that 1 was prime.