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Hervé Faye

1814 - 1902

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Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye ((1814-10-01)1 October 1814 – (1902-07-04)4 July 1902) was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) and educated at the École Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Observatory to which he had been appointed on the recommendation of M. Arago. It was during his time at the École Polytechnique that he developed his interest in astronomy. He studied comets, and discovered the periodic comet 4P/Faye on 22 November 1843. His discovery of "Faye's Comet" attracted worldwide attention, and won him the 1844 Lalande Prize and a membership in the French Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hervé Faye is the 293rd most popular astronomer (up from 351st in 2019), the 3,131st most popular biography from France (up from 3,887th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hervé Faye ranks 293 out of 644. Before him are Richard Martin West, Laurent Cassegrain, Giorgio Abetti, Sherburne Wesley Burnham, Sylvain Arend, and Richard Christopher Carrington. After him are Grigory Neujmin, Eugene Parker, Frank Muller, Mashallah ibn Athari, Thomas Romney Robinson, and David Gill.

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Among people born in 1814, Hervé Faye ranks 47. Before him are Bhanubhakta Acharya, Jules Simon, Daniel Kirkwood, Miklós Ybl, John Hughes, and Pierre Wantzel. After him are Friedrich, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Auguste Clésinger, Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Felix Lichnowsky, Johann Georg Halske, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. Among people deceased in 1902, Hervé Faye ranks 40. Before him are Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant, Moritz Kaposi, Ivan Yarkovsky, Lazarus Fuchs, Adolf Kussmaul, and Fyodor Stravinsky. After him are Kálmán Tisza, Count Richard Belcredi, Thomas Nast, Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer, Princess Friederike of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hervé Faye ranks 3,131 out of 6,770. Before him are Casimir Delavigne (1793), Jean Patou (1887), Lupus Servatus (805), Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544), Fernand Crommelynck (1886), and Marcel Boulenger (1873). After him are Bernard Desclot (1201), François Joseph Westermann (1751), André Maschinot (1903), Louis Réard (1897), Pierre Bec (1921), and Louis Charles Breguet (1880).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Hervé Faye ranks 32. Before him are Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), Marguerite Laugier (1896), André-Louis Danjon (1890), Jean Fernel (1497), and Laurent Cassegrain (1629). After him are Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Charles Wolf (1827), Georges Rayet (1839), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), and Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718).

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