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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. His discovery of "Faye's Comet" attracted worldwide attention, and won him the 1844 Lalande Prize and a membership in the French Academy of Sciences. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hervé Faye has received more than 24,432 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Hervé Faye is the 360th most popular astronomer (down from 345th in 2019), the 3,805th most popular biography from France (down from 3,485th in 2019) and the 40th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Hervé Faye ranks 360 out of 531Before him are Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt, Kees de Jager, Warren De la Rue, Milorad B. Protić, Philibert Jacques Melotte, and Sherburne Wesley Burnham. After him are Paul Götz, Hendrik van Gent, Otto Heckmann, Marcel Minnaert, Christoph Arnold, and Catherine Wolfe Bruce.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Hervé Faye ranks 53Before him are Daniel Kirkwood, James Paget, Edmond Frémy, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Girolamo de Rada, and Johann Georg Halske. After him are Gustav Hartlaub, Adolph Tidemand, Franz Josef Ruprecht, Juan Rafael Mora Porras, Oskar Kolberg, and Edwin Stanton. Among people deceased in 1902, Hervé Faye ranks 57Before him are Julia Grant, Bret Harte, Gustave Trouvé, Antanas Baranauskas, Almon Brown Strowger, and Frederick Abel. After him are Princess Bathildis of Anhalt-Dessau, John Wesley Powell, John Houlding, Gleb Uspensky, Richard Leach Maddox, and Emil Holub.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hervé Faye ranks 3,805 out of 6,011Before him are Bernard Pivot (1935), Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813), Richard Berry (1950), Abel Bonnard (1883), Léon Gautier (1832), and Georges Speicher (1907). After him are Gustave Lanson (1857), Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761), Marie Jules César Savigny (1777), Christophe Dugarry (1972), Paul Paray (1886), and Michel Deguy (1930).

Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Hervé Faye ranks 40Before him are Adrien Auzout (1622), André Patry (1902), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), Georges Rayet (1839), Félix Tisserand (1845), and Odette Bancilhon (1908). After him are Catherine Cesarsky (1943), Alfred Schmitt (1907), Stéphane Javelle (1864), Audouin Dollfus (1924), Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (1823), and Michel Giacobini (1873).