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Jérôme Eugène Coggia

1849 - 1919

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Jérôme Eugène Coggia (18 February 1849 – 15 January 1919) was a 19th-century French astronomer and discoverer of asteroids and comets, who was born in the Corsican town of Ajaccio. Working at the Marseille Observatory from 1866 to 1917, Coggia discovered a number of comets, including the bright "Coggia's Comet" (C/1874 H1). The periodic comet 27P/Crommelin was previously called "Comet Pons-Coggia-Winnecke-Forbes". He is also credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of 5 asteroids at Marseille between 1868 and 1899. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jérôme Eugène Coggia is the 229th most popular astronomer, the 2,531st most popular biography from France (up from 2,797th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Astronomer.

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Among astronomers, Jérôme Eugène Coggia ranks 229 out of 644. Before him are Peter Andreas Hansen, Antonio de Ulloa, Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Alexis Bouvard, and William Wallace Campbell. After him are Thomas Gold, Edward L. G. Bowell, Tamara Smirnova, Johannes Fabricius, Robert T. A. Innes, and César-François Cassini de Thury.

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Among people born in 1849, Jérôme Eugène Coggia ranks 46. Before him are Saionji Kinmochi, Georg Luger, Empress Shōken, Dersu Uzala, William Osler, and Karl Brugmann. After him are Sergei Ivanovich Mosin, Johan August Brinell, Oscar Hertwig, Alexander von Krobatin, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, and Benjamin Godard. Among people deceased in 1919, Jérôme Eugène Coggia ranks 67. Before him are Karl Brugmann, Ahmed Muhtar Pasha, Eugen Leviné, Raymonde de Laroche, Evelyn De Morgan, and Wilhelm Lehmbruck. After him are Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia, Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, Aaron Kosminski, Louis Botha, Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, and Alexander Izvolsky.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jérôme Eugène Coggia ranks 2,531 out of 6,770. Before him are Renaud de Vichiers (1198), Jean Prouvé (1901), Legall de Kermeur (1702), Pierre Waldeck-Rousseau (1846), Jacques Doriot (1898), and Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon (1676). After him are Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711), Jean François de Troy (1679), Bernadette Lafont (1938), Pierre Renoir (1885), Antoine Pinay (1891), and Jacques Mesrine (1936).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Jérôme Eugène Coggia ranks 21. Before him are Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), Jean Picard (1620), Félix Tisserand (1845), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), and Alexis Bouvard (1767). After him are César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (1823), Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), and Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715).

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