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Guillaume Le Gentil

1725 - 1792

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Guillaume Joseph Hyacinthe Jean-Baptiste Le Gentil de la Galaisière (French pronunciation: [ɡijom lə ʒɑ̃ti], 11 or 12 September 1725 – 22 October 1792) was a French astronomer who discovered several nebulae and was appointed to the Royal Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guillaume Le Gentil has received more than 390,163 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Guillaume Le Gentil is the 240th most popular astronomer (down from 206th in 2019), the 2,903rd most popular biography from France (down from 2,643rd in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 240 out of 644. Before him are Maximilian Hell, Muhyi al-Din al-Maghribi, Agrippa, Cleostratus, Johannes Schöner, and Thomas Gold. After him are George Mary Searle, Giovanni Battista Donati, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, Jean Fernel, Wilhelm von Biela, and César-François Cassini de Thury.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 19. Before him are John Newton, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, George Mason, Franz Moritz von Lacy, and Arthur Guinness. After him are Ahmad Shah Bahadur, Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa, Johann Peter Beaulieu, Jean-Étienne Montucla, Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and Joseph Duplessis. Among people deceased in 1792, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 25. Before him are Denis Fonvizin, Antoine Louis, George Mason, Johann Andreas Stein, Maximilian Hell, and Antonio Rosetti. After him are Yazid of Morocco, John Smeaton, John Burgoyne, John Paul Jones, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, and Adam Gottlob Moltke.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 2,903 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768), Ferdinand Zecca (1864), Mirra Alfassa (1878), Alain Corneau (1943), Jack Lang (1939), and René Duguay-Trouin (1673). After him are Daniel Buren (1938), Petrus Comestor (1100), Lupus Servatus (805), Djibril Cissé (1981), Henri Pélissier (1889), and Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (1698).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 21. Before him are Jean Chacornac (1823), Bernard Lyot (1897), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Alexis Bouvard (1767), and Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849). After him are Jean Fernel (1497), César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Charles Wolf (1827), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), André-Louis Danjon (1890), and Jean-Louis Pons (1761).

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