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Hervé Faye

1814 - 1902

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Hervé Auguste Étienne Albans Faye ((1814-10-01)1 October 1814 – (1902-07-04)4 July 1902) was a French astronomer, born at Saint-Benoît-du-Sault (Indre) and educated at the École Polytechnique, which he left in 1834, before completing his course, to accept a position in the Paris Observatory to which he had been appointed on the recommendation of M. Arago. It was during his time at the École Polytechnique that he developed his interest in astronomy. He studied comets, and discovered the periodic comet 4P/Faye on 22 November 1843. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hervé Faye has received more than 26,407 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Hervé Faye is the 351st most popular astronomer (up from 360th in 2019), the 3,886th most popular biography from France (down from 3,789th in 2019) and the 36th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hervé Faye ranks 351 out of 644. Before him are James W. Christy, Frank Muller, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Takeshi Urata, Eugene Parker, and Herbert Friedman. After him are Bart Bok, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Viktor Knorre, Heikki A. Alikoski, Christopher Hansteen, and Georg Marcgrave.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Hervé Faye ranks 53. Before him are Amalia Lindegren, Gustav Hartlaub, Daniel Kirkwood, Joseph Hooker, James Paget, and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda. After him are Claude Thomas Alexis Jordan, Hermann, Prince of Wied, Adolph Tidemand, Franz Josef Ruprecht, Edwin Stanton, and Edmond Frémy. Among people deceased in 1902, Hervé Faye ranks 55. Before him are Infanta María Cristina of Spain, Andrejs Pumpurs, Julia Grant, Count Richard Belcredi, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, and Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer. After him are Mark Antokolsky, Bret Harte, Aisha Taymur, Antanas Baranauskas, John Wesley Powell, and Salomon Jadassohn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hervé Faye ranks 3,886 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Laval (1862), Georgette Leblanc (1869), Virginie Despentes (1969), Lambert I of Nantes (796), Robert, Count of Mortain (1031), and Daniel Boulanger (1922). After him are Alexis Thérèse Petit (1791), Victor Massé (1822), Philippe Mexès (1982), Yvette Chauviré (1917), Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867), and Éléonore de Roye (1535).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Hervé Faye ranks 36. Before him are Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), Louis Boyer (1901), Georges Rayet (1839), and Félix Tisserand (1845). After him are Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Adrien Auzout (1622), André Patry (1902), Marguerite Laugier (1896), Catherine Cesarsky (1943), and Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (1823).

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