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Michel Giacobini

1873 - 1938

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Michel Giacobini (1873–1938) was a French astronomer. He discovered a number of comets, including 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (parent body of the Giacobinids meteor shower), 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak, and 205P/Giacobini. The latter he had discovered at Nice on 4 September 1896, but it was not seen on its return, a little less than 7 years later, and was considered a lost comet and consequently designated D/1896 R2. On 10 September 2008, amateur supernova hunters Koichi Itagaki and Hiroshi Kaneda rediscovered it, on its seventeenth return. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Michel Giacobini is the 568th most popular astronomer (down from 501st in 2019), the 5,056th most popular biography from France (down from 4,799th in 2019) and the 51st most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Michel Giacobini ranks 568 out of 644. Before him are Carlos Torres, Kazuro Watanabe, Maura Tombelli, Alexander Voeikov, Korado Korlević, and Alexandre Schaumasse. After him are Thomas Bopp, Richard A. Proctor, Alfred Schmitt, Andrew Ainslie Common, John August Anderson, and Kin Endate.

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Among people born in 1873, Michel Giacobini ranks 189. Before him are Walter de la Mare, Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov, Alphonse Kirchhoffer, Franz Weidenreich, Juan Corzo, and Leonid Leonidov. After him are Juliette Atkinson, August Rodenberg, Halvdan Koht, John Simon, 1st Viscount Simon, Enoch Sontonga, and Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard. Among people deceased in 1938, Michel Giacobini ranks 213. Before him are Warner Oland, Tom Crean, Alma Gluck, Mikuláš Galanda, Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire, and Arthur Barclay. After him are Walter Migula, Alexander Amfiteatrov, Hale Asaf, William Glackens, Jacob Opdahl, and Aarne Pohjonen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Michel Giacobini ranks 5,056 out of 6,770. Before him are Claire Voisin (1962), Dayot Upamecano (1998), Jean Rouaud (1952), Jean-Marc Gounon (1963), François Nourissier (1927), and Éric Boullier (1973). After him are Georges Grignard (1905), Dominique Baudis (1947), Isabelle Caro (1982), Yoann Gourcuff (1986), Léo Lacroix (1937), and Sébastien Izambard (1973).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Michel Giacobini ranks 51. Before him are Fernand Courty (1862), Audouin Dollfus (1924), Pierre Puiseux (1855), Ernest Esclangon (1876), Louise du Pierry (1746), and Alexandre Schaumasse (1882). After him are Alfred Schmitt (1907), and Françoise Combes (1952).

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