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Gérard de Vaucouleurs

1918 - 1995

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Gérard Henri de Vaucouleurs (25 April 1918 – 7 October 1995) was a French astronomer best known for his studies of galaxies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gérard de Vaucouleurs has received more than 40,682 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Gérard de Vaucouleurs is the 317th most popular astronomer (up from 383rd in 2019), the 3,532nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,636th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Gérard de Vaucouleurs ranks 317 out of 531. Before him are Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Charles Dillon Perrine, Richard Christopher Carrington, Edward Sabine, Christine Kirch, and Tadeáš Hájek. After him are Adrien Auzout, André Patry, Michael van Langren, Geminiano Montanari, Johann III Bernoulli, and Luigi Carnera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Gérard de Vaucouleurs ranks 165. Before him are Venetia Burney, Suzanne Flon, Alfredo Ovando Candía, Arthur Chung, Shinobu Hashimoto, and Barry Morse. After him are Bill Vukovich, Art Carney, Georges Berger, Eric Ericson, Gottfried von Einem, and Alfred Bickel. Among people deceased in 1995, Gérard de Vaucouleurs ranks 159. Before him are Alexander Kaidanovsky, Gisela Mauermayer, John Cairncross, Sergio Bertoni, Werner Liebrich, and Ingo Schwichtenberg. After him are Eva Gabor, Katarina Taikon, Jüri Järvet, Eiji Okada, Robert Stephens, and Doug McClure.

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In France

Among people born in France, Gérard de Vaucouleurs ranks 3,532 out of 6,011. Before him are Louise Weiss (1893), Charles Pasqua (1927), Philippe Étancelin (1896), Princess Maria Immaculata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies (1874), Raimu (1883), and Antoine Furetière (1619). After him are Jules Janin (1804), Nicolas Trigault (1577), Santiago de Liniers, 1st Count of Buenos Aires (1753), Jean-Pierre Thiollet (1956), Adrien Auzout (1622), and Michel Deville (1931).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Gérard de Vaucouleurs ranks 33. Before him are Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), André-Louis Danjon (1890), Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Louis Boyer (1901), and Marguerite Laugier (1896). After him are Adrien Auzout (1622), André Patry (1902), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), Georges Rayet (1839), Félix Tisserand (1845), and Odette Bancilhon (1908).

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