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Henri-Alexandre Deslandres

1853 - 1948

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Henri Alexandre Deslandres (24 July 1853 – 15 January 1948) was a French astronomer, director of the Meudon and Paris Observatories, who carried out intensive studies on the behaviour of the atmosphere of the Sun. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henri-Alexandre Deslandres has received more than 25,674 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Henri-Alexandre Deslandres is the 286th most popular astronomer (up from 288th in 2019), the 3,367th most popular biography from France (down from 3,318th in 2019) and the 28th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres ranks 286 out of 644. Before him are Benjamin Apthorp Gould, Halton Arp, Allan Sandage, Horace Parnell Tuttle, Charles T. Kowal, and Carl Charlier. After him are John Michell, Aleksander Wolszczan, Albert George Wilson, Caterina Scarpellini, Rudolph Minkowski, and Zdeňka Vávrová.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres ranks 59. Before him are Laurits Tuxen, Gabriel Hanotaux, Frank Dicksee, Paul Julius Möbius, Isidor Kaufmann, and Adolf Furtwängler. After him are Karl von Einem, Hans von Koessler, Howard Pyle, John Wesley Hardin, Hermann Wissmann, and Arthur Moritz Schoenflies. Among people deceased in 1948, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres ranks 104. Before him are Pavel Rybalko, Karl Valentin, Charles Evans Hughes, Alfred Kerr, Vicente Huidobro, and Monteiro Lobato. After him are Kan Kikuchi, Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Aldo Leopold, Richard Tauber, Eugen Slutsky, and Hulusi Behçet.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres ranks 3,367 out of 6,770. Before him are Wolfgang Capito (1478), Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716), Henri-Montan Berton (1767), Violette Szabo (1921), Jean Domat (1625), and Frédéric Beigbeder (1965). After him are Jules Vallès (1832), Pierre Dartout (1954), Boris Cyrulnik (1937), Othon de la Roche (1200), Clotilde Courau (1969), and Éric Serra (1959).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres ranks 28. Before 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). After 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).

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