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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], 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 372,352 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Guillaume Le Gentil is the 206th most popular astronomer (down from 165th in 2019), the 2,652nd most popular biography from France (down from 2,106th in 2019) and the 20th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 206 out of 531. Before him are Johann Heinrich von Mädler, James Dunlop, Johannes Fabricius, Rudolf Wolf, William Wallace Campbell, and Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner. After him are Edward L. G. Bowell, James W. Christy, Heinrich Christian Schumacher, Timocharis, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, and Seth Barnes Nicholson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1725, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 18. Before him are John Newton, Pyotr Rumyantsev, Ahilyabai Holkar, Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, Franz Moritz von Lacy, and Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa. After him are Arthur Guinness, Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller, Duke Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Francesco Bartolozzi, Ahmad Shah Bahadur, and Joseph Duplessis. Among people deceased in 1792, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 23. Before him are Jacques Cazotte, Denis Fonvizin, Antonio Rosetti, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Antoine Louis, and Maximilian Hell. After him are John Paul Jones, Johann Andreas Stein, John Smeaton, Yazid of Morocco, René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, and Charles Simon Favart.

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In France

Among people born in France, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 2,652 out of 6,011. Before him are Octave Lapize (1887), Guillaume Dubois (1656), Édith Scob (1937), Fernando Ocáriz Braña (1944), Alberic of Cîteaux (1001), and Jean Guitton (1901). After him are François de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1558), Claude Bolling (1930), Gabriel Voisin (1880), Yvon Douis (1935), Aristide Bruant (1851), and Emmeram of Regensburg (600).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Guillaume Le Gentil ranks 20. Before him are Jean Chacornac (1823), Jean Picard (1620), Auguste Charlois (1864), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), and Jean Fernel (1497). After him are Alexis Bouvard (1767), César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), and Charles Wolf (1827).

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