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Louis Boyer

1901 - 1999

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Louis Boyer (1901–1999) was a French astronomer who worked at the Algiers Observatory, North Africa, where he discovered 40 asteroids between 1930 and 1952. In the 1950s and 1960s. he worked on identifications of small Solar System bodies at Nice Observatory in southeastern France. The asteroid 1215 Boyer, discovered by his colleague Alfred Schmitt at Algiers in 1932, was named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Boyer is the 393rd most popular astronomer (down from 316th in 2019), the 3,889th most popular biography from France (down from 3,611th in 2019) and the 40th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Louis Boyer ranks 393 out of 644. Before him are James Edward Keeler, Albrecht Unsöld, Margaret Geller, Harold D. Babcock, Vera Gaze, and Nathaniel Bliss. After him are Chushiro Hayashi, James Gunn, Paris Pişmiş, Gustav Spörer, Kiyotsugu Hirayama, and Viktor Knorre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Louis Boyer ranks 200. Before him are Vilma Bánky, Florence Green, Jean Mermoz, Willy Fritsch, Konstantinos Kollias, and William Daniels. After him are Gustav Knuth, Arne Borg, Mark Oliphant, Arleigh Burke, Haj Ali Razmara, and Frank Zamboni. Among people deceased in 1999, Louis Boyer ranks 159. Before him are Giuseppe Delfino, Umberto Maglioli, Jehan Buhan, Riccardo Freda, Art Farmer, and John Bromwich. After him are Paris Pişmiş, Betty Robinson, Albert Charles Smith, Igor M. Diakonoff, Minoru Chiaki, and Jacques Lecoq.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Boyer ranks 3,889 out of 6,770. Before him are André Auffray (1884), Marcel Brillouin (1854), Ernest Hébert (1817), Michèle Arnaud (1919), René Panhard (1841), and François Perrier (1833). After him are Princess Maria Cristina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1877), Anne-Marie Colchen (1925), Michel Onfray (1959), Thomas Murner (1475), Guy Marchand (1937), and Jérémy Mathieu (1983).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Louis Boyer ranks 40. Before him are Charles Wolf (1827), Georges Rayet (1839), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), and André Patry (1902). After him are Stéphane Javelle (1864), Odette Bancilhon (1908), Catherine Cesarsky (1943), Adrien Auzout (1622), Fernand Courty (1862), and Audouin Dollfus (1924).

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