French Astronomer
1. Roger Cayrel (1925)
French Astronomer
Roger Victor Emile Cayrel is a French astronomer.
2. Claude-Louis Mathieu (1783)
French Astronomer
Claude-Louis Mathieu was a French mathematician and astronomer who began his career as an engineer. He worked with the Bureau des Longitudes and tried to determine the distance of the...
3. Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie (1943)
French Astronomer
Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie is a French astronomer and since 1991 has held the Observational astrophysics chair at the Collège de France. Antoine Émile Henry Labeyrie graduated from the grande...
4. Jean-Claude Merlin (1954)
French Astronomer
Jean-Claude Merlin is a French astronomer founder-president of the Société Astronomique de Bourgogne. He was laureate of the Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet Fondation de la Vocation in 1982 and received the Prix...
5. Jean Sylvain Bailly (1736)
French Astronomer
Jean-Sylvain Bailly was a French astronomer mathematician freemason and political leader of the early part of the French Revolution. He presided over the Tennis Court Oath served as the mayor...
6. Gabriel Delmotte (1876)
French Astronomer
Gabriel Delmotte was a French astronomer deputy and mayor of Masnières in the Nord department in northern France. He was author of Recherches sélénographiques et nouvelle théorie des cirques lunaires...
7. Urbain Le Verrier (1811)
French Astronomer
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier was a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for his part in the discovery of Neptune.
8. Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580)
French Astronomer
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc often known simply as Peiresc or by the Latin form of his name Peirescius was a French astronomer antiquary and savant who maintained a wide correspondence...
