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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 122,306 page views. His biography is available in 43 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Jérôme Lalande is the 44th most popular astronomer (up from 51st in 2019), the 746th most popular biography from France (up from 848th in 2019) and the 3rd 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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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.31

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Jérôme Lalande ranks 44 out of 644. Before him are Fred Hoyle, Robert Woodrow Wilson, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Jan Oort, Sosigenes of Alexandria, and Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille. After him are Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Gerard Kuiper, Ferdinand Verbiest, Vera Rubin, Clyde Tombaugh, and Riccardo Giacconi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1732, Jérôme Lalande ranks 8. Before him are George Washington, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Stanisław August Poniatowski, Pierre Beaumarchais, Jacques Necker, and Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach. After him are Adélaïde of France, Johann Christoph Adelung, Richard Arkwright, Abbas III, John Dickinson, and Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1807, Jérôme Lalande ranks 3. Before him are Angelica Kauffman, and Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily. After him are Magtymguly Pyragy, Jeanne Baret, Duchess Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Henry Benedict Stuart, Osman Pazvantoğlu, Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm, George Atwood, John Newton, and Johannes Nikolaus Tetens.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jérôme Lalande ranks 746 out of 6,770. Before him are Catherine Labouré (1806), Maurice Béjart (1927), Albert I, Prince of Monaco (1848), Jean-Baptiste de La Salle (1651), Eugène Edine Pottier (1816), and Clotilde (475). After him are Charles Hermite (1822), Simon Vouet (1590), François-André Danican Philidor (1726), François Mansart (1598), Theobald I of Navarre (1201), and Robert Doisneau (1912).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Jérôme Lalande ranks 3. Before him are Charles Messier (1730), and Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713). After him are Pierre Janssen (1824), Pierre Méchain (1744), Jacques Cassini (1677), Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580), Jean Picard (1620), Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Auguste Charlois (1864), and Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688).

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