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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 11,314 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Schmitt is the 456th most popular astronomer (down from 402nd in 2019), the 4,522nd most popular biography from France (down from 4,020th in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Alfred Schmitt ranks 456 out of 644. Before him are Fyodor Bredikhin, Benjamin Banneker, Charles W. Juels, Frank Schlesinger, Alexandre Schaumasse, and Carolyn Porco. After him are Michael E. Brown, David Todd Wilkinson, Geoffrey Burbidge, Guillermo Haro, Tsutomu Seki, and Vincenzo Cerulli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Alfred Schmitt ranks 285. Before him are Eric Brook, Alain Daniélou, Dionisio Mejía, Lotfia Elnadi, Hagigat Rzayeva, and Henk Badings. After him are Leslie Charteris, Marie Jahoda, Luiz Gervazoni, Ann Todd, Alfredo Devincenzi, and Maurice Cloche. Among people deceased in 1973, Alfred Schmitt ranks 210. Before him are Aleksandr Ponomarev, Josué de Castro, Betty Field, Albert Paris Gütersloh, Raymond Schwartz, and Mahmud Taymur. After him are Robert Armstrong, Carlos Schneeberger, Gustav Freij, Émile Reuter, Alfred Romer, and Cecil Kellaway.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alfred Schmitt ranks 4,522 out of 6,770. Before him are Roger Vercel (1894), Jacques-Louis Lions (1928), Francis Girod (1944), Arlette Laguiller (1940), Jules Verreaux (1807), and Laurent Koscielny (1985). After him are Henri Tauzin (1879), Valérie Kaprisky (1962), Jérémy Ménez (1987), Sabine Weiss (1924), Laurent Voulzy (1948), and Jean-Louis Debré (1944).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Alfred Schmitt ranks 47. Before him are Catherine Cesarsky (1943), Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (1823), Stéphane Javelle (1864), Fernand Courty (1862), Odette Bancilhon (1908), and Alexandre Schaumasse (1882). After him are Audouin Dollfus (1924), Louise du Pierry (1746), Pierre Puiseux (1855), Michel Giacobini (1873), Ernest Esclangon (1876), and Françoise Combes (1952).

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