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Alfred Schmitt

1907 - 1973

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Alfred Schmitt (30 November 1907 – 2 April 1975) was a French astronomer. Schmitt worked at Algiers Observatory in the 1930s and 1940s and at the Royal Observatory in Uccle, Belgium in the 1950s. From 1955 to 1958 he was also director of the Quito Observatory in Ecuador. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfred Schmitt has received more than 10,457 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Schmitt is the 402nd most popular astronomer (up from 439th in 2019), the 4,036th most popular biography from France (down from 3,871st in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alfred Schmitt ranks 402 out of 531. Before him are Mary Ward, Janet Akyüz Mattei, Lutz D. Schmadel, Hugo von Seeliger, Richard Schorr, and Lyudmila Karachkina. After him are Henry L. Giclas, Michael E. Brown, Leo Anton Karl de Ball, Horace W. Babcock, Friedrich Tietjen, and Barnaba Oriani.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Alfred Schmitt ranks 246. Before him are Dan Duryea, Ramón Guzmán, Jacques Roumain, Sofia Yablonska, Roger Blin, and Sanya Dharmasakti. After him are Alain Daniélou, Clifford Curzon, Lotfia Elnadi, Sven Andersson, Jean Van Houtte, and August Hellemans. Among people deceased in 1973, Alfred Schmitt ranks 184. Before him are Charles Daniels, Armas Toivonen, Otilio Ulate Blanco, Mahmud Taymur, Jane Bowles, and M. Ageyev. After him are Emil Voigt, Elizabeth Bowen, Robert Armstrong, Joe E. Brown, Hilda Geiringer, and William Haines.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Schmitt ranks 4,036 out of 6,011. Before him are Philippe Chatrier (1926), Émile Lemoine (1840), Roger Blin (1907), François Sudre (1787), Jacques Rozier (1926), and Vincent Candela (1973). After him are Alain Daniélou (1907), Alain Perrin (1956), Jacques Roubaud (1932), Julie Depardieu (1973), Aymeric Laporte (1994), and Ernest Courtot de Cissey (1810).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Alfred Schmitt ranks 42. Before him are Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), Georges Rayet (1839), Félix Tisserand (1845), Odette Bancilhon (1908), Hervé Faye (1814), and Catherine Cesarsky (1943). After him are Stéphane Javelle (1864), Audouin Dollfus (1924), Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (1823), Michel Giacobini (1873), Pierre Puiseux (1855), and Ernest Esclangon (1876).

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