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Louis Boyer

1901 - 1999

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Louis Boyer (1901–1999) was a French astronomer who worked at the Algiers Observatory, North Africa, where he discovered 40 asteroids between 1930 and 1952. In the 1950s and 1960s. he worked on identifications of small Solar System bodies at Nice Observatory in southeastern France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Louis Boyer has received more than 6,019 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Louis Boyer is the 316th most popular astronomer (down from 297th in 2019), the 3,610th most popular biography from France (down from 3,371st in 2019) and the 33rd most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Louis Boyer ranks 316 out of 644. Before him are Karl Christian Bruhns, Pierre Charles Le Monnier, Adam Riess, Grigory Neujmin, Maurice Loewy, and Lewis Boss. After him are Georges Rayet, Sylvain Arend, Nils Christoffer Dunér, Ercole Dembowski, Maarten Schmidt, and Herbert Hall Turner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Louis Boyer ranks 171. Before him are Raymond Firth, Willy Fritsch, Max Lorenz, Ernest Nagel, Carl Joachim Friedrich, and Zeppo Marx. After him are Clyde Geronimi, Gustav Knuth, Edgar Ende, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Karl Arnold, and Henri Sauguet. Among people deceased in 1999, Louis Boyer ranks 137. Before him are Bing Xin, Susan Strasberg, Taheyya Kariokka, Ian Bannen, Igor M. Diakonoff, and Maxim Munzuk. After him are Madeline Kahn, Umberto Maglioli, Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, František Vláčil, Rudi Glöckner, and Alfred Raoul.

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In France

Among people born in France, Louis Boyer ranks 3,610 out of 6,770. Before him are Peter of Bruys (1095), Adolphe d'Archiac (1802), Roger Carel (1927), Patrick Strzoda (1952), Robert Garnier (1534), and Robbie Ross (1869). After him are Alphonse Beau de Rochas (1815), Josiane Balasko (1950), Maxime Bossis (1955), Honoré Charles Reille (1775), Alfred Perot (1863), and Louis Pergaud (1882).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Louis Boyer ranks 33. Before him are Jean-Louis Pons (1761), Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853), Rudolph Minkowski (1895), Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin (1845), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), and Pierre Charles Le Monnier (1715). After him are Georges Rayet (1839), Félix Tisserand (1845), Hervé Faye (1814), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Adrien Auzout (1622), and André Patry (1902).

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