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Charles Messier

1730 - 1817

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Charles Messier (French: [ʃaʁl me.sje]; 26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred to with the letter M and their number between 1 and 110. Messier's purpose for the catalogue was to help astronomical observers distinguish between permanent and transient visually diffuse objects in the sky. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Messier is the 26th most popular astronomer (down from 20th in 2019), the 393rd most popular biography from France (down from 340th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Astronomer.

Charles Messier was a French astronomer who is most famous for his catalogue of deep sky objects.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Messier ranks 26 out of 644. Before him are Carl Sagan, Avempace, Aryabhata, Caroline Herschel, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell. After him are Giuseppe Piazzi, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Riccardo Giacconi, Charles Greeley Abbot, and Giovanni Schiaparelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Charles Messier ranks 2. Before him is Alexander Suvorov. After him are Henry Clinton, Johann Georg Hamann, Étienne Bézout, Jan Ingenhousz, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Pieter Boddaert, Josiah Wedgwood, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, and Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony. Among people deceased in 1817, Charles Messier ranks 5. Before him are Jane Austen, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Germaine de Staël. After him are André Masséna, Karađorđe, Marie Walewska, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, and Duke Louis of Württemberg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Messier ranks 393 out of 6,770. Before him are François Arago (1786), Jean Arp (1886), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Ève Curie (1904), Marin Mersenne (1588), and Pierre Bonnard (1867). After him are Jean Buridan (1295), Maurice Leblanc (1864), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), Raymond Kopa (1931), Odilon Redon (1840), and Louis Antoine de Saint-Just (1767).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Charles Messier ranks 2. Before him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713). After him are Jérôme Lalande (1732), Édouard Stephan (1837), 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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