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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 10,973 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. André Patry is the 319th most popular astronomer (down from 286th in 2019), the 3,542nd most popular biography from France (down from 3,108th in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, André Patry ranks 319 out of 531. Before him are Richard Christopher Carrington, Edward Sabine, Christine Kirch, Tadeáš Hájek, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, and Adrien Auzout. After him are Michael van Langren, Geminiano Montanari, Johann III Bernoulli, Luigi Carnera, Carl Gustav Witt, and James Craig Watson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, André Patry ranks 181. Before him are Bobby Jones, Strom Thurmond, Andrés Mazali, George Kingsley Zipf, Son House, and Ilmari Salminen. After him are Georgette Heyer, Yevgeny Petrov, Yakov Smushkevich, Beryl Markham, Flora Robson, and Henry Hansen. Among people deceased in 1960, André Patry ranks 123. Before him are Igor Grabar, Zora Neale Hurston, Harry Schell, Ken McArthur, Semyon Bogdanov, and Dirk Jan de Geer. After him are Ward Bond, Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, Oliver Kirk, Paul Fort, Walter Noddack, and Wander Johannes de Haas.

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In France

Among people born in France, André Patry ranks 3,542 out of 6,011. Before him are Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956), Adrien Auzout (1622), Michel Deville (1931), Denis Lavant (1961), Georg von Rosen (1843), and Alice Milliat (1884). After him are Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932), Jean-Étienne Guettard (1715), Ernest Hébert (1817), Valérie Trierweiler (1965), Henri Sauguet (1901), and Gaucelm Faidit (1170).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, André Patry ranks 35. Before him are Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Louis Boyer (1901), Marguerite Laugier (1896), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), and Adrien Auzout (1622). After him are Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), Georges Rayet (1839), Félix Tisserand (1845), Odette Bancilhon (1908), Hervé Faye (1814), and Catherine Cesarsky (1943).

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