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Jean-Louis Pons

1761 - 1831

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Jean-Louis Pons (24 December 1761 – 14 October 1831) was a French astronomer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Louis Pons has received more than 56,528 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Jean-Louis Pons is the 269th most popular astronomer (down from 185th in 2019), the 3,226th most popular biography from France (down from 2,451st in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jean-Louis Pons ranks 269 out of 644Before him are Josep Comas i Solà, Otto Struve, Seth Carlo Chandler, André-Louis Danjon, William Cranch Bond, and Guido Bonatti. After him are Theodor von Oppolzer, Philippe van Lansberge, Niccolò Zucchi, Freimut Börngen, Luigi Carnera, and Paul Wild.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Jean-Louis Pons ranks 23Before him are Marguerite Gérard, Marie-Gabrielle Capet, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, François Hanriot, August Batsch, and Pierre Gaveaux. After him are Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, Antonín Vranický, Gottlob Ernst Schulze, William Gregor, Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg, and Blasius Merrem. Among people deceased in 1831, Jean-Louis Pons ranks 39Before him are Vasily Golovnin, Franz Krommer, Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony, Ferenc Kazinczy, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot. After him are Mariana Pineda, Sarah Siddons, Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, Anton Delvig, and Dmitry Senyavin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Louis Pons ranks 3,226 out of 6,770Before him are Bernard Thévenet (1948), Michel Hazanavicius (1967), Sylvain Maréchal (1750), François Bayrou (1951), Jean-Henri d'Anglebert (1629), and Michel Blavet (1700). After him are Bernard Lacombe (1952), Charles Percier (1764), John of Montfort (1294), Geoffrey III, Count of Anjou (1040), René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou (1714), and Flodoard (894).

Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Jean-Louis Pons ranks 27Before him are Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Jean Fernel (1497), César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Charles Wolf (1827), Laurent Cassegrain (1629), and André-Louis Danjon (1890). After him are Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715), and Louis Boyer (1901).