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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 67,422 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Alexis Bouvard is the 215th most popular astronomer (up from 241st in 2019), the 2,715th most popular biography from France (up from 2,851st in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alexis Bouvard ranks 215 out of 531Before him are Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Timocharis, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, Seth Barnes Nicholson, Sergey Belyavsky, and Martin Schwarzschild. After him are Oskar Backlund, Svetlana Gerasimenko, Alfred Fowler, César-François Cassini de Thury, Heber Doust Curtis, and James Ferguson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1767, Alexis Bouvard ranks 30Before him are Platon Zubov, Nicolas Théodore de Saussure, John Adams, Charles Jean Marie Barbaroux, Anders Gustaf Ekeberg, and Philippe LeBon. After him are Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Black Hawk, Jacques Laffitte, Tyagaraja, and Bernhard Romberg. Among people deceased in 1843, Alexis Bouvard ranks 16Before him are Sequoyah, Peter Wittgenstein, Charles Macintosh, Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, Noah Webster, and Robert Southey. After him are Jakob Friedrich Fries, Ippolito Rosellini, Miguel Ricardo de Álava, Casimir Delavigne, John Trumbull, and Francis Scott Key.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alexis Bouvard ranks 2,715 out of 6,011Before him are Pierre André de Suffren (1729), Marcel Granet (1884), Jorge Chávez (1887), Jean François de Troy (1679), André Dussollier (1946), and Zaz (1980). After him are Marie Alfred Cornu (1841), Louis Lavelle (1883), Pierre Bézier (1910), Diana Vreeland (1903), Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (1487), and Eustace II, Count of Boulogne (1015).

Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Alexis Bouvard ranks 21Before him are Jean Picard (1620), Auguste Charlois (1864), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Jean Fernel (1497), and Guillaume Le Gentil (1725). After him are César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), Charles Wolf (1827), and Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849).