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Jean Chacornac

1823 - 1873

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Jean Chacornac (21 June 1823 – 23 September 1873) was a French astronomer and discoverer of a comet and several asteroids. He was born in Lyon and died in Saint-Jean-en-Royans, southeastern France. Working in Marseille and Paris, he discovered six asteroids in the asteroid belt (see table) and C/1852 K1 (Chacornac), a parabolic comet in 1852. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Chacornac has received more than 25,427 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Chacornac is the 182nd most popular astronomer (down from 155th in 2019), the 2,287th most popular biography from France (down from 2,060th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jean Chacornac ranks 182 out of 644. Before him are Peter van de Kamp, Oskar Backlund, Maria Cunitz, Margaret Burbidge, Jacobus Kapteyn, and Lyudmila Chernykh. After him are Seleucus of Seleucia, William Henry Pickering, N. R. Pogson, Johann Hieronymus Schröter, Henri Debehogne, and Edward L. G. Bowell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Jean Chacornac ranks 29. Before him are John Russell Hind, Théodore de Banville, Pyotr Lavrov, Gotthold Eisenstein, Sophie Gengembre Anderson, and Joseph Monier. After him are Giuseppe Fiorelli, Katsu Kaishū, Kurmangazy Sagyrbaev, Archduke Leopold Ludwig of Austria, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, and Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada. Among people deceased in 1873, Jean Chacornac ranks 27. Before him are Sheridan Le Fanu, Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Princess Charlotte of Württemberg, Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Viktor Hartmann, and José Antonio Páez. After him are Friedrich Wieck, Wilhelm Marstrand, Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Adam Sedgwick, and Ferdinand David.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Chacornac ranks 2,287 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean-Pierre Jarier (1946), Philippe Leroy (1930), Jérôme Lejeune (1926), Claude Cahun (1894), François Berléand (1952), and Hans von Salmuth (1888). After him are Georges Claude (1870), Edgar Faure (1908), Pierre Henry (1927), Claire Denis (1946), Jean Paulhan (1884), and Catherine Henriette de Balzac d'Entragues (1579).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Jean Chacornac ranks 15. Before him are Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Auguste Charlois (1864), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), and Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723). After him are Bernard Lyot (1897), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Alexis Bouvard (1767), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), and Guillaume Le Gentil (1725).

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