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Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin

1845 - 1904

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Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (December 19, 1845 – February 29, 1904) was a French astronomer and a discoverer of minor planets. Some sources give his middle name as Athanase. In his early career, he and Guillaume Bigourdan were assistants of Félix Tisserand at Toulouse Observatory. Later, he was the first director of the Nice Observatory in Nice, France from 1884 until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin is the 225th most popular astronomer (up from 294th in 2019), the 2,496th most popular biography from France (up from 3,441st in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin ranks 225 out of 644. Before him are Adalbert Krueger, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Henri Debehogne, Johannes Schöner, Peter Andreas Hansen, and Antonio de Ulloa. After him are Horace Parnell Tuttle, Alexis Bouvard, William Wallace Campbell, Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Thomas Gold, and Edward L. G. Bowell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin ranks 47. Before him are Émile Boutroux, Eugène Grasset, Elihu Root, Tina Blau, Friedrich Martens, and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth. After him are Afonso, Prince Imperial of Brazil, André Bessette, Jules Guesde, Wollert Konow, Walter Crane, and Jan Czerski. Among people deceased in 1904, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin ranks 45. Before him are Karl Alfred von Zittel, Wilhelm Marr, Franz von Lenbach, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj, John Brown Gordon, and William Renshaw. After him are Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, Ernest, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Vyacheslav von Plehve, and Kate Chopin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin ranks 2,496 out of 6,770. Before him are Drogo of Champagne (670), Charles Plumier (1646), Jacques Tourneur (1904), Matthieu Ricard (1946), André Dussollier (1946), and Hans van den Broek (1936). After him are Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700), Dominique Pinon (1955), Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de La Porta (1772), François-Joseph Talma (1763), Paul Belmondo (1963), and Patrick Hernandez (1949).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin ranks 19. Before him are Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723), Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), Jean Picard (1620), Félix Tisserand (1845), and Jean-Louis Pons (1761). After him are Alexis Bouvard (1767), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (1823), Benjamin Baillaud (1848), and Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853).

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