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Georges Rayet

1839 - 1906

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Georges-Antoine-Pons Rayet (12 December 1839 – 14 June 1906) was a French astronomer. He was born in Bordeaux, France. He began working at the Paris Observatory in 1863. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Rayet has received more than 27,663 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Georges Rayet is the 317th most popular astronomer (up from 335th in 2019), the 3,625th most popular biography from France (down from 3,612th in 2019) and the 34th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Georges Rayet ranks 317 out of 644. Before him are Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Adam Riess, Grigory Neujmin, Maurice Loewy, Lewis Boss, and Louis Boyer. After him are Sylvain Arend, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Ercole Dembowski, Maarten Schmidt, Herbert Hall Turner, and Eise Eisinga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1839, Georges Rayet ranks 59. Before him are Pascual Cervera y Topete, Carl Humann, Jane Morris, Eduard Nápravník, Harry Seeley, and Philippe Édouard Léon Van Tieghem. After him are Nils Christoffer Dunér, Luigi Capuana, Friedrich Gernsheim, Karl Alfred von Zittel, Ludwig Anzengruber, and Julius Petersen. Among people deceased in 1906, Georges Rayet ranks 47. Before him are Carl Schurz, Kosta Khetagurov, Princess Alexandrine of Prussia, Martin Wegelius, Harry Nelson Pillsbury, and Ferdinand Brunetière. After him are Prince William of Schaumburg-Lippe, Ernst Josephson, Stevan Sremac, Johann Dzierzon, Rahime Perestu Sultan, and Johann Most.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Rayet ranks 3,625 out of 6,770. Before him are Viviane Romance (1912), Germaine Tillion (1907), Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920), Jean Martinon (1910), Pierre Le Pesant, sieur de Boisguilbert (1646), and Henri Brocard (1845). After him are Joseph Valentin Boussinesq (1842), Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1090), Charles Louis L'Héritier de Brutelle (1746), Marcel Prévost (1862), and Paul Gervais (1816).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Georges Rayet ranks 34. Before him are Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), and Louis Boyer (1901). After him are Félix Tisserand (1845), Hervé Faye (1814), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Adrien Auzout (1622), André Patry (1902), and Marguerite Laugier (1896).

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