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Félix Tisserand

1845 - 1896

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François Félix Tisserand (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa feliks tisʁɑ̃]; 13 January 1845 – 20 October 1896) was a French astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Félix Tisserand has received more than 25,438 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Félix Tisserand is the 326th most popular astronomer (up from 339th in 2019), the 3,676th most popular biography from France (down from 3,633rd in 2019) and the 35th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Félix Tisserand ranks 326 out of 644Before him are Ercole Dembowski, Maarten Schmidt, Herbert Hall Turner, Eise Eisinga, Fang Lizhi, and David H. Levy. After him are Christine Kirch, Joseph Helffrich, Jing Fang, Alvan Clark, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, and Geminiano Montanari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Félix Tisserand ranks 64Before him are Gustaf Cederström, John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, Wilhelm Pfeffer, Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Wilhelm von Bode, and Henri Brocard. After him are Pál Szinyei Merse, Jules Cambon, Judith Gautier, Ulisse Dini, Ulises Heureaux, and Antonin Mercié. Among people deceased in 1896, Félix Tisserand ranks 60Before him are Carl Humann, Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, Amelia Dyer, and Mårten Eskil Winge. After him are Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Jane Wilde, Mathew Brady, Walthère Frère-Orban, Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, and Alexey Bogolyubov.

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In France

Among people born in France, Félix Tisserand ranks 3,676 out of 6,770Before him are Guy Ropartz (1864), Claude Fleury (1640), Gaston Rébuffat (1921), Charles Duclerc (1812), Eugène Belgrand (1810), and René Huyghe (1906). After him are Georges Urbain (1872), Étienne Mattler (1905), Léon Serpollet (1858), Adolphe Grisel (1872), Jean-Pierre Ricard (1944), and Jean François de Saint-Lambert (1716).

Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Félix Tisserand ranks 35Before him are Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), Louis Boyer (1901), and Georges Rayet (1839). After him are Hervé Faye (1814), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Adrien Auzout (1622), André Patry (1902), Marguerite Laugier (1896), and Catherine Cesarsky (1943).