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Jérôme Lalande

1732 - 1807

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Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (French: [lalɑ̃d]; 11 July 1732 – 4 April 1807) was a French astronomer, freemason and writer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jérôme Lalande has received more than 112,941 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Jérôme Lalande is the 51st most popular astronomer (down from 49th in 2019), the 850th most popular biography from France (down from 845th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Astronomer.

Jérôme Lalande is most famous for his discovery of the first periodic comet, which he named after himself.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jérôme Lalande ranks 51 out of 531Before him are James Bradley, Asaph Hall, Fritz Zwicky, Clyde Tombaugh, Ferdinand Verbiest, and Johann Palisa. After him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille, Pieter van Musschenbroek, Varāhamihira, John Flamsteed, Pierre Méchain, and Girolamo Fracastoro.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, Jérôme Lalande ranks 9Before him are Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Pierre Beaumarchais, Jacques Necker, Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, and Richard Arkwright. After him are Abbas III, Adélaïde of France, Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg, Johann Christoph Adelung, John Dickinson, and Warren Hastings. Among people deceased in 1807, Jérôme Lalande ranks 4Before him are Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily, Angelica Kauffman, and Pasquale Paoli. After him are Magtymguly Pyragy, Jeanne Baret, Henry Benedict Stuart, George Atwood, John Newton, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Osman Pazvantoğlu, and Jacob Philipp Hackert.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jérôme Lalande ranks 850 out of 6,011Before him are Sebastian Brant (1458), Guillaume de Nogaret (1260), Marcel Carné (1906), François Christophe de Kellermann (1735), Christina of Lorraine (1565), and Jules Ferry (1832). After him are Émile Borel (1871), Louis Néel (1904), Jacques Callot (1592), Balthus (1908), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), and Stéphane Audran (1932).

Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Jérôme Lalande ranks 2Before him are Charles Messier (1730). After him are Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Pierre Méchain (1744), Jacques Cassini (1677), Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Pierre Janssen (1824), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), and Bernard Lyot (1897).