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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. Despite humble beginnings and being self-taught, he went on to become the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827 Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history. Pons worked at three observatories in his career, Marseille Observatory, where he was also trained, a short-lived observatory at Royal Park La Marlia in Tuscany, and finally at an observatory in Florence.Pons's work supported some famous comet recoveries of the 19th century, including Encke's Comet and Crommelin's Comet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean-Louis Pons has received more than 49,817 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Jean-Louis Pons is the 185th most popular astronomer (up from 421st in 2019), the 2,459th most popular biography from France (up from 3,795th in 2019) and the 18th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jean-Louis Pons ranks 185 out of 531. Before him are Jean Philippe Loys de Cheseaux, Otto Wilhelm von Struve, Margherita Hack, John Bevis, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, and Francis Preserved Leavenworth. After him are Antonio de Ulloa, Lyudmila Chernykh, Robert Grant Aitken, Yrjö Väisälä, Francis Baily, and Bertil Lindblad.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1761, Jean-Louis Pons ranks 18. Before him are Sineperver Sultan, José, Prince of Brazil, Smithson Tennant, Marie Harel, Louis-Léopold Boilly, and Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt. After him are Marguerite Gérard, François Hanriot, Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg, Georg I, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Antonín Vranický, and William Gregor. Among people deceased in 1831, Jean-Louis Pons ranks 32. Before him are Henri Grégoire, Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot, Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein, James Hoban, Princess Maria Amalia of Saxony, and Jedediah Smith. After him are Henry Maudslay, Ryōkan, Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Franz Krommer, Vasily Golovnin, and Ferenc Kazinczy.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean-Louis Pons ranks 2,459 out of 6,011. Before him are Michel Marcel Navratil (1908), Cécile Aubry (1928), Pierre Pflimlin (1907), René Laloux (1929), Nicolas Jenson (1420), and Émile Augier (1820). After him are Jacques-François Menou (1750), François Coppée (1842), Peter I of Courtenay (1126), Nicholas I, Duke of Lorraine (1448), Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510), and Pierre-Étienne Flandin (1889).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Jean-Louis Pons ranks 18. Before him are Bernard Lyot (1897), Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723), Jean Chacornac (1823), Jean Picard (1620), Auguste Charlois (1864), and Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748). After him are Jean Fernel (1497), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Alexis Bouvard (1767), César-François Cassini de Thury (1714), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), and Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715).

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