New games! PlayTrivia andBirthle.

ASTRONOMER

Louis Boyer

1901 - 1999

Photo of Louis Boyer

Icon of person Louis Boyer

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 5,207 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Louis Boyer is the 297th most popular astronomer (up from 307th in 2019), the 3,385th most popular biography from France (down from 3,306th in 2019) and the 31st most popular French Astronomer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 5.2k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.30

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Louis Boyers by language


Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Louis Boyer ranks 297 out of 531. Before him are Aleksander Wolszczan, Christen Sørensen Longomontanus, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, Wilhelm Gliese, Maurice Loewy, and Allan Sandage. After him are Franz Kaiser, Christopher Hansteen, Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Adam Riess, Carl Keenan Seyfert, and Marguerite Laugier.

Most Popular Astronomers in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Louis Boyer ranks 162. Before him are Kjeld Abell, Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Edwina Mountbatten, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, Julio Libonatti, Sergei Tumansky, and Elias Katz. After him are Juan García Oliver, Daniel-Rops, Sekiryo Kaneda, Gustav Knuth, René Dubos, and Umberto Caligaris. Among people deceased in 1999, Louis Boyer ranks 128. Before him are Primo Nebiolo, Dmitry Likhachov, Bing Xin, Flávio Costa, Riccardo Freda, and Maxim Munzuk. After him are Umberto Maglioli, Grete Stern, Richard Kiley, Susan Strasberg, Mario Soldati, and Art Farmer.

Others Born in 1901

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1999

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In France

Among people born in France, Louis Boyer ranks 3,385 out of 6,011. Before him are Auguste Franchomme (1808), Riyad Mahrez (1991), André Gobert (1890), George Cœdès (1886), Félix Bracquemond (1833), and René de Saussure (1868). After him are Joseph François Dupleix (1697), Pierre Fresnay (1897), Claude Miller (1942), Jeannot Szwarc (1937), Henri Decoin (1890), and Julien Guiomar (1928).

Others born in France

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Louis Boyer ranks 31. Before him are Laurent Cassegrain (1629), Charles Wolf (1827), Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849), André-Louis Danjon (1890), Benjamin Baillaud (1848), and Henri-Alexandre Deslandres (1853). After him are Marguerite Laugier (1896), Gérard de Vaucouleurs (1918), Adrien Auzout (1622), André Patry (1902), Antoine Darquier de Pellepoix (1718), and Georges Rayet (1839).

French born Astronomers

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous
  • DatawheelCL