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Audouin Dollfus

1924 - 2010

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Audouin Charles Dollfus (12 November 1924 – 1 October 2010) was a French astronomer and aeronaut, specialist in studies of the Solar System and discoverer of Janus, a moon of Saturn. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Audouin Dollfus has received more than 33,324 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Audouin Dollfus is the 478th most popular astronomer (down from 421st in 2019), the 4,668th most popular biography from France (down from 4,110th in 2019) and the 48th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Audouin Dollfus ranks 478 out of 644. Before him are Christian August Friedrich Peters, Charlotte Moore Sitterly, Pelageya Shajn, Forest Ray Moulton, Heinrich Kreutz, and Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist. After him are Carl A. Wirtanen, Arno Arthur Wachmann, Hiroki Kosai, Barnaba Oriani, William Henry Smyth, and Karl Ludwig Littrow.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Audouin Dollfus ranks 374. Before him are Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Klaus Junge, Leo Buscaglia, Humberto Fernández-Morán, Claude Netter, and Roy Bentley. After him are Béla Zsitnik, Eugene Dynkin, Robert Körner, Bill Smith, Giovanni Saldarini, and Rune Larsson. Among people deceased in 2010, Audouin Dollfus ranks 312. Before him are Carlos Monsiváis, Abel Muzorewa, James Gammon, Gregory Isaacs, Trevor Taylor, and Joseph Bessala. After him are David Brown, Jorge González, Pavel Lednyov, Yuri Maslyukov, Herb Ellis, and Ilene Woods.

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In France

Among people born in France, Audouin Dollfus ranks 4,668 out of 6,770. Before him are Colin Clive (1900), Caroline Cellier (1945), Laurent Jalabert (1968), Jules Pierre Rambur (1801), Delphine de Vigan (1966), and René Bliard (1932). After him are Danièle Dupré (1938), Claude Papi (1949), François Deguelt (1932), Christian Estrosi (1955), Thierry Meyssan (1957), and Jean-Claude Magnan (1941).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Audouin Dollfus ranks 48. Before him are Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (1823), Stéphane Javelle (1864), Fernand Courty (1862), Odette Bancilhon (1908), Alexandre Schaumasse (1882), and Alfred Schmitt (1907). After him are Louise du Pierry (1746), Pierre Puiseux (1855), Michel Giacobini (1873), Ernest Esclangon (1876), and Françoise Combes (1952).

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