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Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix

1718 - 1802

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Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (23 November 1718, in Toulouse – 18 January 1802, in Toulouse) was a French astronomer. He has usually been credited with the discovery of the Ring Nebula in 1779, but in fact he independently rediscovered it upon reading a report of Charles Messier regarding Messier's own observations of Comet Bode. His description that the object was "...as large as Jupiter and resembles a planet which is fading" led to the terminology "planetary nebula". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix is the 355th most popular astronomer (down from 300th in 2019), the 3,626th most popular biography from France (down from 3,495th in 2019) and the 38th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix ranks 355 out of 644. Before him are Carl Gustav Witt, Bartholomaeus Pitiscus, James Glaisher, Cyril Jackson, Heikki A. Alikoski, and Marc William Buie. After him are Johann Gottfried Köhler, Stephen P. Synnott, Albert George Wilson, Otto Lesser, Maurice Loewy, and Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1718, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix ranks 17. Before him are Jacob Christian Schäffer, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, John Canton, Antoine de Chézy, and Nikita Ivanovich Panin. After him are William Hunter, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Israel Putnam, John Roebuck, and Elizabeth Montagu. Among people deceased in 1802, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix ranks 22. Before him are Giuseppe Sarti, María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba, August Batsch, George Romney, Johann Gottlieb Georgi, and Joseph Duplessis. After him are Joseph Ducreux, Thomas Girtin, Leopold I, Prince of Lippe, Daniel Morgan, Corona Schröter, and Pedro Rodríguez, Count of Campomanes.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix ranks 3,626 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine de la Sale (1388), Gaucelm Faidit (1170), Charles de Bonchamps (1760), Tignous (1957), Jean-Marie Duhamel (1797), and Brigitte Fontaine (1939). After him are Willy Sagnol (1977), Gabriel François Doyen (1726), Benoît Jacquot (1947), Louis Charles Delescluze (1809), Henry Becque (1837), and Michel Chevalier (1806).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix ranks 38. Before him are Hervé Faye (1814), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Charles Wolf (1827), Georges Rayet (1839), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), and Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918). After him are André Patry (1902), Louis Boyer (1901), Stéphane Javelle (1864), Odette Bancilhon (1908), Catherine Cesarsky (1943), and Adrien Auzout (1622).

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