ASTRONOMER

Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix

1718 - 1802

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Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (23 November 1718, in Toulouse – 18 January 1802, in Toulouse) was a French astronomer. He has usually been credited with the discovery of the Ring Nebula in 1779, but in fact he independently rediscovered it upon reading a report of Charles Messier regarding Messier's own observations of Comet Bode. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix has received more than 11,696 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix is the 300th most popular astronomer (up from 332nd in 2019), the 3,494th most popular biography from France (up from 3,603rd in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix ranks 300 out of 644. Before him are Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin, Otto Lesser, Walter Lewin, Alfred Fowler, Michael van Langren, and Robert T. A. Innes. After him are Edwin Ernest Salpeter, Carl Gustav Witt, Antonia Maury, Hermann von Struve, Wilhelm Gliese, and Bartholomaeus Pitiscus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1718, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix ranks 17. Before him are Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Jacob Christian Schäffer, Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg, Antoine de Chézy, Johan Ernst Gunnerus, and Jean Joseph Marie Amiot. After him are William Hunter, George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht, Israel Putnam, Elizabeth Montagu, and John Roebuck. Among people deceased in 1802, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix ranks 20. Before him are Giuseppe Sarti, George Romney, Franz Aepinus, Luisa of Naples and Sicily, August Batsch, and Johann Gottlieb Georgi. After him are Joseph Duplessis, Daniel Morgan, Thomas Girtin, Joseph Ducreux, Ivan Argunov, and Leopold I, Prince of Lippe.

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In France

Among people born in France, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix ranks 3,494 out of 6,770. Before him are Anselm of Laon (1050), Claude Pinoteau (1925), Pierre Bec (1921), Max Aub (1909), Christophe de Margerie (1951), and Élisabeth Sophie Chéron (1648). After him are Serge Lama (1943), Roger de Rabutin, Comte de Bussy (1618), Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans (1646), Blondel de Nesle (1155), Mary of Burgundy, Duchess of Cleves (1393), and Ismaël Bullialdus (1605).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix ranks 31. Before him are Laurent Cassegrain (1629), André-Louis Danjon (1890), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), and Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845). After him are Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), Louis Boyer (1901), Georges Rayet (1839), Félix Tisserand (1845), Hervé Faye (1814), and Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918).

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