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Nicole-Reine Lepaute

1723 - 1788

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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 65,105 page views. Her biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Nicole-Reine Lepaute is the 164th most popular astronomer (down from 154th in 2019), the 2,055th most popular biography from France (down from 2,053rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 164 out of 644. Before her are John Russell Hind, Edward Walter Maunder, James Glaisher, Franz Xaver von Zach, Friedrich Karl Arnold Schwassmann, and Norman Lockyer. After her are Williamina Fleming, Harlow Shapley, William Robert Brooks, Luboš Kohoutek, Hubert Reeves, and Michael H. Hart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1723, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 14. Before her are Prithvi Narayan Shah, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Johann Bernhard Basedow, Jean-François Marmontel, Anna Amalia, Abbess of Quedlinburg, and Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm. After her are Mir Taqi Mir, Tobias Mayer, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Princess Mary of Great Britain, Antoine Louis, and Pehr Osbeck. Among people deceased in 1788, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 14. Before her are Johann Georg Hamann, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, José, Prince of Brazil, Infante Gabriel of Spain, and Duchess Augusta of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. After her are Toriyama Sekien, Emmanuel-Armand de Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon, Charles Christian, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, François Joseph Paul de Grasse, Pierre André de Suffren, and Giovanni Domenico Maraldi.

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In France

Among people born in France, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 2,055 out of 6,770. Before her are Guillaume Cale (1350), Florent Schmitt (1870), Paul Gavarni (1804), Albert Gleizes (1881), Otto, Duke of Burgundy (945), and David Ginola (1967). After her are Luigi Federico Menabrea (1809), Amédée Ozenfant (1886), Eugène Carrière (1849), Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740), Paul Virilio (1932), and Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme (1540).

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Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Nicole-Reine Lepaute ranks 14. Before her are Jean Picard (1620), Édouard Stephan (1837), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Auguste Charlois (1864), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), and Guillaume Bigourdan (1851). After her are Jean Chacornac (1823), Bernard Lyot (1897), Dominique, comte de Cassini (1748), Benjamin Baillaud (1848), Alexis Bouvard (1767), and Jérôme Eugène Coggia (1849).

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