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Charles Messier

1730 - 1817

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Charles Messier (French: [ʃaʁl me.sje]; 26 June 1730 – 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of 110 nebulae and star clusters, which came to be known as the Messier objects, referred to with the letter M and their number between 1 and 110. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Messier has received more than 450,648 page views. His biography is available in 74 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Charles Messier is the 20th most popular astronomer (up from 23rd in 2019), the 340th most popular biography from France (up from 468th in 2019) and the most popular French Astronomer.

Charles Messier was a French astronomer who is most famous for his catalogue of deep sky objects.

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  • 450k

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  • 70.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 74

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Charles Messier ranks 20 out of 644. Before him are Ole Rømer, Carl Sagan, Aryabhata, Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi, and Neil deGrasse Tyson. After him are Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, Avempace, Edmond Halley, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Charles Greeley Abbot, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1730, Charles Messier ranks 2. Before him is Alexander Suvorov. After him are Johann Georg Hamann, Étienne Bézout, Jan Ingenhousz, Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova, Prince Augustus Ferdinand of Prussia, Josiah Wedgwood, Antonio Sacchini, James Bruce, Prince Francis Xavier of Saxony, and Velu Nachiyar. Among people deceased in 1817, Charles Messier ranks 4. Before him are Jane Austen, Tadeusz Kościuszko, and Germaine de Staël. After him are André Masséna, Marie Walewska, Karađorđe, Martin Heinrich Klaproth, Princess Charlotte of Wales, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, and Fyodor Ushakov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles Messier ranks 340 out of 6,770. Before him are Sophie Germain (1776), Nadar (1820), Pierre Beaumarchais (1732), Chrétien de Troyes (1135), Françoise-Athénaïs de Rochechouart, Marquise de Montespan (1640), and Robert I, Duke of Normandy (1010). After him are Louis de Broglie (1892), Claude Bernard (1813), John the Fearless (1371), Raymond Kopa (1931), Fernand Braudel (1902), and Paul Barras (1755).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Charles Messier ranks 1. After him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Jérôme Lalande (1732), Pierre Janssen (1824), Pierre Méchain (1744), Jacques Cassini (1677), Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Jean Picard (1620), Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Auguste Charlois (1864), and Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688).

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