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Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent

1823 - 1900

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Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (or Joseph Laurent) (died 1900) was a French amateur astronomer and chemist who discovered the asteroid 51 Nemausa in 1858, for which he was a recipient of the Lalande Prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences. It is also likely that he is the same person as the person of that name who provided chemistry assistance to photography pioneer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri in 1853. He never made any more asteroid discoveries and not much is known about him. He was described as a "very skillful young man" (un jeune homme très habile) by Édouard Stephan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent is the 240th most popular astronomer (up from 422nd in 2019), the 2,612th most popular biography from France (up from 4,348th in 2019) and the 23rd most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent ranks 240 out of 644. Before him are Robert T. A. Innes, César-François Cassini de Thury, Giovanni Dondi dell'Orologio, Wilhelm Gliese, Paul Wild, and Rudolf Wolf. After him are Cleomedes, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Josep Comas i Solà, Alfred Fowler, Benjamin Baillaud, and Charles T. Kowal.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent ranks 35. Before him are Gotthold Eisenstein, Pyotr Lavrov, Konstantin Ushinsky, Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach, Sophie Adlersparre, and Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. After him are Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Enrico Betti, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Schuyler Colfax, and Imre Madách. Among people deceased in 1900, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent ranks 39. Before him are Eugenio Beltrami, Pyotr Lavrov, Vasily Kalinnikov, Birsa Munda, Henry Sidgwick, and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. After him are Peter Waage, Duchess Alexandra of Oldenburg, Arthur Sullivan, Hermann Levi, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, and Carl Lange.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent ranks 2,612 out of 6,770. Before him are Otto IV, Count of Burgundy (1248), Elisabeth of Lorraine (1574), Jean-Féry Rebel (1666), Marie of the Incarnation (1566), Ginette Neveu (1919), and Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia (955). After him are François Joseph Paul de Grasse (1722), Hervé Bazin (1911), Bathilde d'Orléans (1750), Yvonne de Gaulle (1900), Charles, Prince of Soubise (1715), and Henri Meilhac (1831).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent ranks 23. Before him are Félix Tisserand (1845), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Alexis Bouvard (1767), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), and César-François Cassini de Thury (1714). After him are Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), Marguerite Laugier (1896), and André-Louis Danjon (1890).

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