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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 23,520 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Henri-Alexandre Deslandres is the 288th most popular astronomer (up from 331st in 2019), the 3,332nd most popular biography from France (up from 3,438th in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres ranks 288 out of 531Before him are Heikki A. Alikoski, John Machin, Frank Watson Dyson, André-Louis Danjon, Benjamin Baillaud, and Raymond Smith Dugan. After him are Otto Lesser, Hermann von Struve, Aleksander Wolszczan, Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, and Wilhelm Gliese.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1853, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres ranks 61Before him are Hans von Koessler, Howard Pyle, Laurits Tuxen, Ernst Otto Beckmann, Lillie Langtry, and Gabriel Hanotaux. After him are Karl von Einem, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Heinrich Lammasch, Florentino Ameghino, Hermann Wissmann, and Princess Marie Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen. Among people deceased in 1948, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres ranks 102Before him are Charles Evans Hughes, Richard Tauber, Kan Kikuchi, May Whitty, Lizzie Magie, and August Hlond. After him are Fred Niblo, František Svoboda, Sigrid Hjertén, Thekla Resvoll, Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, and Alfred Kerr.

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In France

Among people born in France, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres ranks 3,332 out of 6,011Before him are Georgette Leblanc (1869), Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé (1628), Maurice Paléologue (1859), Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913), René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (1714), and Gaston Tissandier (1843). After him are Henri Brisson (1835), Madeleine Renaud (1900), Beatrice of England (1242), Louis Majorelle (1859), Sylvain Wiltord (1974), and Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber (1924).

Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres ranks 30Before him are Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), Charles Wolf (1827), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), André-Louis Danjon (1890), and Benjamin Baillaud (1848). After him are Louis Boyer (1901), Marguerite Laugier (1896), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Adrien Auzout (1622), André Patry (1902), and Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718).