1723 - 1788
Nicole-Reine Lepaute (French pronunciation: [nikɔl ʁɛn ləpot]; née Étable de la Brière, 5 January 1723 – 6 December 1788), also erroneously known as Hortense Lepaute, was a French astronomer and human computer. Lepaute along with Alexis Clairaut and Jérôme Lalande calculated the date of the return of Halley's Comet. Her other astronomical feats include calculating the 1764 solar eclipse and producing almanacs from 1759 to 1783. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nicole-Reine Lepaute has received more than 59,680 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Nicole-Reine Lepaute is the 154th most popular astronomer (up from 169th in 2019), the 2,060th most popular biography from France (up from 2,167th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Astronomer.
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Among astronomers, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 154 out of 531. Before her are Peter Andreas Hansen, Guillaume Bigourdan, Eugène Joseph Delporte, Hermann Carl Vogel, Bernard Lyot, and George Phillips Bond. After her are Jean Chacornac, Jacobus Kapteyn, Jean Picard, Tobias Mayer, Vesto Slipher, and Andreas Cellarius.
1795 - 1874
HPI: 56.23
Rank: 148
1851 - 1932
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 149
1882 - 1955
HPI: 56.17
Rank: 150
1841 - 1907
HPI: 56.13
Rank: 151
1897 - 1952
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 152
1825 - 1865
HPI: 55.99
Rank: 153
1723 - 1788
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 154
1823 - 1873
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 155
1851 - 1922
HPI: 55.85
Rank: 156
1620 - 1682
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 157
1723 - 1762
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 158
1875 - 1969
HPI: 55.70
Rank: 159
1596 - 1665
HPI: 55.64
Rank: 160
Among people born in 1723, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 12. Before her are Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Adam Ferguson, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, and Prithvi Narayan Shah. After her are Tobias Mayer, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Antoine Louis, Mir Taqi Mir, Princess Mary of Great Britain, and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm. Among people deceased in 1788, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 14. Before her are Johann Georg Hamann, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, Infante Gabriel of Spain, José, Prince of Brazil, and Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After her are Toriyama Sekien, Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Giovanni Domenico Maraldi, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Pierre André de Suffren, and Infanta Mariana Victoria of Portugal.
1723 - 1788
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 6
1723 - 1816
HPI: 59.54
Rank: 7
1723 - 1787
HPI: 57.96
Rank: 8
1723 - 1790
HPI: 57.23
Rank: 9
1723 - 1799
HPI: 57.10
Rank: 10
1723 - 1775
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 11
1723 - 1788
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 12
1723 - 1762
HPI: 55.80
Rank: 13
1723 - 1783
HPI: 55.11
Rank: 14
1723 - 1792
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 15
1723 - 1810
HPI: 54.09
Rank: 16
1723 - 1772
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 17
1723 - 1807
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 18
1730 - 1788
HPI: 61.84
Rank: 8
1723 - 1788
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 9
1696 - 1788
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 10
1752 - 1788
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 11
1761 - 1788
HPI: 56.74
Rank: 12
1764 - 1788
HPI: 56.01
Rank: 13
1723 - 1788
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 14
1712 - 1788
HPI: 54.78
Rank: 15
1735 - 1788
HPI: 54.10
Rank: 16
1709 - 1788
HPI: 53.86
Rank: 17
1722 - 1788
HPI: 53.53
Rank: 18
1729 - 1788
HPI: 53.35
Rank: 19
1768 - 1788
HPI: 52.86
Rank: 20
Among people born in France, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 2,060 out of 6,011. Before her are Blanche of France, Duchess of Austria (1278), Amédée Ozenfant (1886), Danielle Mitterrand (1924), Jacques Tourneur (1904), Jacques Cazotte (1719), and Hugh of Châteauneuf (1053). After her are Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès (1812), Pierre Hadot (1922), Jean Calas (1698), Pierre Nora (1931), Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1540), and Honoré V, Prince of Monaco (1778).
1278 - 1305
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 2,054
1886 - 1966
HPI: 55.92
Rank: 2,055
1924 - 2011
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 2,056
1904 - 1977
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 2,057
1719 - 1792
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 2,058
1053 - 1132
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 2,059
1723 - 1788
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 2,060
1812 - 1895
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 2,061
1922 - 2010
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 2,062
1698 - 1762
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 2,063
1931 - Present
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 2,064
1540 - 1614
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 2,065
1778 - 1841
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 2,066
Among astronomers born in France, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 13. Before her are Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Pierre Janssen (1824), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), and Bernard Lyot (1897). After her are Jean Chacornac (1823), Jean Picard (1620), Auguste Charlois (1864), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Jean-Louis Pons (1761), and Jean Fernel (1497).
1837 - 1923
HPI: 58.20
Rank: 7
1842 - 1926
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 8
1824 - 1907
HPI: 56.73
Rank: 9
1688 - 1768
HPI: 56.71
Rank: 10
1851 - 1932
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 11
1897 - 1952
HPI: 56.06
Rank: 12
1723 - 1788
HPI: 55.90
Rank: 13
1823 - 1873
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 14
1620 - 1682
HPI: 55.82
Rank: 15
1864 - 1910
HPI: 55.09
Rank: 16
1748 - 1845
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 17
1761 - 1831
HPI: 54.32
Rank: 18
1497 - 1558
HPI: 54.17
Rank: 19