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Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent

1823 - 1900

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Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent (or Joseph Laurent) (died 1900) was a French amateur astronomer and chemist who discovered the asteroid 51 Nemausa in 1858, for which he was a recipient of the Lalande Prize awarded by the French Academy of Sciences. It is also likely that he is the same person as the person of that name who provided chemistry assistance to photography pioneer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri in 1853. He never made any more asteroid discoveries and not much is known about him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent has received more than 15,377 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent is the 422nd most popular astronomer (up from 436th in 2019), the 4,348th most popular biography from France (down from 4,209th in 2019) and the 42nd most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent ranks 422 out of 644. Before him are Giuseppe Asclepi, Shi Shen, Lutz D. Schmadel, Frederik Kaiser, Aristarkh Belopolsky, and Philibert Jacques Melotte. After him are Stéphane Javelle, William de Wiveleslie Abney, Leo Anton Karl de Ball, Gustav Spörer, Adalbert Krueger, and Joel Stebbins.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent ranks 66. Before him are Simon Bolivar Buckner, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, John Evans, Daniel Harrwitz, Gonçalves Dias, and Ernest Reyer. After him are Joseph Leidy, Dmitry Tolstoy, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, William M. Tweed, Spencer Fullerton Baird, and Robert Whitehead. Among people deceased in 1900, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent ranks 79. Before him are Adrien René Franchet, Johan Kjeldahl, Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Albert Samain, Émile Blanchard, and Dankmar Adler. After him are Albert Bernhard Frank, Hannibal Goodwin, John Anderson, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Victoire Léodile Béra, and William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong.

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In France

Among people born in France, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent ranks 4,348 out of 6,770. Before him are Joseph Wresinski (1917), Edmond Frémy (1814), Max Bense (1910), Wissam Ben Yedder (1990), Henri Hubert (1872), and Georges Beaucourt (1912). After him are Simonne Mathieu (1908), Audrey Fleurot (1977), Jean Cruveilhier (1791), Stéphane Javelle (1864), Gaston Amson (1883), and François Marie Daudin (1776).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Joseph Jean Pierre Laurent ranks 42. Before him are Hervé Faye (1814), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Adrien Auzout (1622), André Patry (1902), Marguerite Laugier (1896), and Catherine Cesarsky (1943). After him are Stéphane Javelle (1864), Fernand Courty (1862), Odette Bancilhon (1908), Alexandre Schaumasse (1882), Alfred Schmitt (1907), and Audouin Dollfus (1924).

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