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Odette Bancilhon

1908 - 1998

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Odette Bancilhon (22 September 1908 – 1998) was a French astronomer. She is best known for her work during the 1930s and 1940s at the Algiers Observatory, in Algeria, North Africa, where she discovered 1333 Cevenola, a stony Eunomian asteroid from the main-belt. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Odette Bancilhon is the 419th most popular astronomer (up from 438th in 2019), the 4,060th most popular biography from France (up from 4,404th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Odette Bancilhon ranks 419 out of 644. Before her are Johann III Bernoulli, Harry Edwin Wood, George Herbig, Zinaida Aksentyeva, Carlyle S. Beals, and Stéphane Javelle. After her are Herbert Friedman, Leo Anton Karl de Ball, Marcel Minnaert, Janet Akyüz Mattei, Jean Richer, and Mary Adela Blagg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Odette Bancilhon ranks 234. Before her are Helen Jacobs, František Douda, Gunnar Olsson, Nils Poppe, Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ, and Gustav Ernesaks. After her are Simonne Mathieu, František Kriegel, Lars-Erik Larsson, Francesco Camusso, Roger Beaufrand, and Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Among people deceased in 1998, Odette Bancilhon ranks 186. Before her are Inge Scholl, Rolan Bykov, Gottfried Dienst, Fred Alderman, Enoch Powell, and Raquel Rastenni. After her are André Bonin, Christiane Rochefort, Gene Autry, Louis Hostin, William Gaddis, and Mikio Oda.

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In France

Among people born in France, Odette Bancilhon ranks 4,060 out of 6,770. Before her are Maxime Maufra (1861), Léon Serpollet (1858), Stéphane Javelle (1864), Hippolyte Aucouturier (1876), Wladimir Aïtoff (1879), and François Cavanna (1923). After her are Eugénie Cotton (1881), Simonne Mathieu (1908), Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924), Mary of Avesnes (1280), Jean Rollin (1938), and Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Odette Bancilhon ranks 42. Before her are Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), André Patry (1902), Louis Boyer (1901), and Stéphane Javelle (1864). After her are Catherine Cesarsky (1943), Adrien Auzout (1622), Fernand Courty (1862), Audouin Dollfus (1924), Pierre Puiseux (1855), and Ernest Esclangon (1876).

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