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Édouard Stephan

1837 - 1923

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Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan (31 August 1837 – 31 December 1923) was a French astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelled Stéphan in some literature, but this is apparently erroneous. He was born in Sainte Pezenne (today one of the districts of the town of Niort) and attended the Ecole Normale Superieure, and graduated at the top of his class in 1862. He was the director of the Marseille Observatory from 1864 to 1907 (until 1872 he was subordinate to Urbain le Verrier). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Édouard Stephan is the 53rd most popular astronomer (up from 112th in 2019), the 728th most popular biography from France (up from 1,483rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Édouard Stephan ranks 53 out of 644. Before him are Michel Mayor, Arthur Eddington, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, John Michell, Jérôme Lalande, and Adolphe Quetelet. After him are William Alfred Fowler, Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Karl Ludwig Hencke, Jan Oort, Abu Maʿshar, and James Bradley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Édouard Stephan ranks 16. Before him are Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Yohannes IV, Cosima Wagner, Pedro V of Portugal, and Adam Opel. After him are Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Paul Morphy, Ivan Kramskoi, Marie François Sadi Carnot, John Newlands, and Vasil Levski. Among people deceased in 1923, Édouard Stephan ranks 15. Before him are John Venn, Warren G. Harding, Pancho Villa, Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, Edward W. Morley, and Joaquín Sorolla. After him are Julius Martov, Dietrich Eckart, Edward Emerson Barnard, Damdin Sükhbaatar, Pierre Loti, and Princess Louise of Prussia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Stephan ranks 728 out of 6,770. Before him are Émile Picard (1856), Sebastian Brant (1458), Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile (1162), Raymond Aron (1905), Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall (1284), and René Coty (1882). After him are Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1741), Michèle Mercier (1939), Jean-Baptiste Bessières (1768), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), Hyacinthe Rigaud (1659), and François Guizot (1787).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Édouard Stephan ranks 4. Before him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Charles Messier (1730), and Jérôme Lalande (1732). After him are Pierre Méchain (1744), Pierre Janssen (1824), Jacques Cassini (1677), Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Jean Chacornac (1823), Auguste Charlois (1864), Bernard Lyot (1897), and Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688).

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