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Georges Rayet

1839 - 1906

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Georges-Antoine-Pons Rayet (12 December 1839 – 14 June 1906) was a French astronomer. He was born in Bordeaux, France. He began working at the Paris Observatory in 1863. He worked on meteorology in addition to astronomy. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Georges Rayet is the 321st most popular astronomer (down from 317th in 2019), the 3,314th most popular biography from France (up from 3,626th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Georges Rayet ranks 321 out of 644. Before him are Hendrik van Gent, Karl Christian Bruhns, Michael van Langren, Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Milton L. Humason, and Niccolò Zucchi. After him are Oenopides, Christoph Arnold, Edward Sabine, Takeshi Urata, George Van Biesbroeck, and Brian G. Marsden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Georges Rayet ranks 53. Before him are Antonio Starabba, Marchese di Rudinì, Abdyl Frashëri, Eduard Nápravník, Nagakura Shinpachi, Walter Pater, and Pascual Cervera y Topete. After him are Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, George Clement Perkins, Nils Christoffer Dunér, August W. Eichler, Gustave Trouvé, and Carl Humann. Among people deceased in 1906, Georges Rayet ranks 45. Before him are Béhanzin, Kodama Gentarō, Jean Lorrain, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Josephine Butler, and Kosta Khetagurov. After him are Alfred Stevens, Martin Wegelius, Johann Most, Marin Drinov, Todor Burmov, and Carl Schurz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Rayet ranks 3,314 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Allègre (1937), Théophraste Renaudot (1586), André Clot (1909), Vincent Voiture (1597), Charles Pathé (1863), and Aimeric de Peguilhan (1200). After him are Louis-Sébastien Lenormand (1757), Maxime Rodinson (1915), Sébastien Faure (1858), René Huyghe (1906), Alfred Bruneau (1857), and Virginie Demont-Breton (1859).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Georges Rayet ranks 35. Before him are André-Louis Danjon (1890), Jean Fernel (1497), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), Hervé Faye (1814), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), and Charles Wolf (1827). After him are Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), André Patry (1902), Louis Boyer (1901), and Stéphane Javelle (1864).

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