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Nicole-Reine Lepaute

1723 - 1788

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Nicole-Reine Lepaute (French pronunciation: [nikɔl ʁɛn ləpot]; née Étable de la Brière, 5 January 1723 – 6 December 1788), also erroneously known as Hortense Lepaute, was a French astronomer and human computer. Lepaute along with Alexis Clairaut and Jérôme Lalande calculated the date of the return of Halley's Comet. Her other astronomical feats include calculating the 1764 solar eclipse and producing almanacs from 1759 to 1783. She was also a member of the Scientific Académie de Béziers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nicole-Reine Lepaute is the 167th most popular astronomer (down from 164th in 2019), the 1,718th most popular biography from France (up from 2,055th in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 167 out of 644. Before her are Alphonse Borrelly, Johann Adam Schall von Bell, Harlow Shapley, James Ferguson, Cornelis Johannes van Houten, and John Goodricke. After her are Margaret Burbidge, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, Carl Keenan Seyfert, Habash al-Hasib al-Marwazi, James Craig Watson, and Giovanni Battista Hodierna.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 13. Before her are Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Jean-François Marmontel, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Adam Ferguson, Prithvi Narayan Shah, and Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg. After her are Tobias Mayer, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, Marcus Elieser Bloch, Princess Mary of Great Britain, and Pehr Osbeck. Among people deceased in 1788, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 10. Before her are Thomas Gainsborough, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Charles Edward Stuart, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, and Johann Georg Hamann. After her are José, Prince of Brazil, Infante Gabriel of Spain, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, and Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 1,718 out of 6,770. Before her are Anna de Noailles (1876), Arnaud Amalric (1160), Dominique Jean Larrey (1766), Nicolas Sanson (1600), Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689), and Jean-Charles de Borda (1733). After her are Raymond of Burgundy (1070), Jules Dupré (1811), Aénor de Châtellerault (1103), Beatrice of Provence (1229), Anne Gonzaga (1616), and Étienne Maurice Falconet (1716).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 14. Before her are Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Jean Chacornac (1823), Auguste Charlois (1864), Bernard Lyot (1897), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), and Alphonse Borrelly (1842). After her are Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), Jean Picard (1620), Félix Tisserand (1845), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), and Alexis Bouvard (1767).

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