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Alexis Bouvard

1767 - 1843

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Alexis Bouvard (French pronunciation: [alɛksi buvaʁ], 27 June 1767 – 7 June 1843) was a French astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexis Bouvard has received more than 73,807 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Alexis Bouvard is the 228th most popular astronomer (down from 215th in 2019), the 2,776th most popular biography from France (down from 2,706th in 2019) and the 19th most popular French Astronomer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alexis Bouvard ranks 228 out of 644. Before him are Benjamin Baillaud, Johannes Fabricius, Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner, George William Hill, Antonín Mrkos, and Cyril Jackson. After him are Jérôme Eugène Coggia, Nancy Roman, Wilhelm Beer, Adriaan Blaauw, Wang Zhenyi, and Maximilian Hell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1767, Alexis Bouvard ranks 28. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Isabey, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, and Jacques Laffitte. After him are Platon Zubov, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, John Adams, Philippe LeBon, Takizawa Bakin, and Tyagaraja. Among people deceased in 1843, Alexis Bouvard ranks 16. Before him are Marie Anne Lenormand, Sequoyah, Peter Wittgenstein, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Robert Southey, and Charles Macintosh. After him are Jakob Friedrich Fries, Ippolito Rosellini, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Casimir Delavigne, John Trumbull, and Julius Vincenz von Krombholz.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexis Bouvard ranks 2,776 out of 6,770. Before him are Bernard Werber (1961), Eustace II, Count of Boulogne (1015), Louise Farrenc (1804), Louis de Jaucourt (1704), André Pieyre de Mandiargues (1909), and Bathilde d'Orléans (1750). After him are Georges Catroux (1877), Pierre Brasseur (1905), Nicolas Henri, Duke of Orléans (1607), Vladimir Posner (1934), Michel Camdessus (1933), and Paul Tortelier (1914).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Alexis Bouvard ranks 19. Before him are Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723), Jean Chacornac (1823), Bernard Lyot (1897), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), and Benjamin Baillaud (1848). After him are Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Jean Fernel (1497), César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Charles Wolf (1827), and Laurent Cassegrain (1629).

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