ASTRONOMER

André Patry

1902 - 1960

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André Patry (22 November 1902 – 20 June 1960) was a French astronomer and discoverer of 9 minor planets in the late 1930s. Patry was orphaned at a young age, and began working as a 17-year-old at the Nice Observatory in southeastern France. He studied asteroids and discovered several himself. The inner main-belt asteroid 1601 Patry was named in his honor (M.P.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of André Patry has received more than 11,904 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. André Patry is the 382nd most popular astronomer (down from 319th in 2019), the 4,115th most popular biography from France (down from 3,527th in 2019) and the 39th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, André Patry ranks 382 out of 644. Before him are Tadeáš Hájek, Nicolas Fatio de Duillier, Chushiro Hayashi, Johann von Lamont, Christoph Arnold, and Margaret Geller. After him are Henry E. Holt, James L. Elliot, Alenush Terian, George Henry Peters, Nathaniel Bliss, and Janet Akyüz Mattei.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, André Patry ranks 211. Before him are Strom Thurmond, Herma Szabo, Lūcija Garūta, Jean Grémillon, Luo Ronghuan, and Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald. After him are Zaharia Stancu, Milman Parry, Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi, Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, Mario Magnozzi, and Ethelda Bleibtrey. Among people deceased in 1960, André Patry ranks 141. Before him are Carl Keenan Seyfert, Noël Bas, Teodoro Picado Michalski, Oswald Veblen, Arthur Legat, and Jamil Mardam Bey. After him are Fritz-Hubert Gräser, Aly Khan, Fred Buscaglione, Dmitry Gulia, Lottie Dod, and Eduard Čech.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Patry ranks 4,115 out of 6,770. Before him are Andrée Brunet (1901), Roger Lapébie (1911), Louis Vicat (1786), Louis Hémon (1880), Gabrielle Réjane (1856), and Henri Laurent (1881). After him are Pierre Mac Orlan (1882), James Smithson (1765), Jean-Richard Bloch (1884), Élie-Abel Carrière (1818), Florence Arthaud (1957), and Oscar Heisserer (1914).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, André Patry ranks 39. Before him are Louis Boyer (1901), Georges Rayet (1839), Félix Tisserand (1845), Hervé Faye (1814), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), and Adrien Auzout (1622). After him are Marguerite Laugier (1896), Catherine Cesarsky (1943), Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (1823), Stéphane Javelle (1864), Fernand Courty (1862), and Odette Bancilhon (1908).

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