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Édouard Stephan

1837 - 1923

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Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan (31 August 1837 – 31 December 1923) was a French astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelled Stéphan in some literature, but this is apparently erroneous. He was born in Sainte Pezenne (today one of the districts of the town of Niort) and attended the Ecole Normale Superieure, and graduated at the top of his class in 1862.He was the director of the Marseille Observatory from 1864 to 1907 (until 1872 he was subordinate to Urbain le Verrier). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Édouard Stephan has received more than 28,727 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Édouard Stephan is the 114th most popular astronomer (up from 126th in 2019), the 1,607th most popular biography from France (up from 1,671st in 2019) and the 7th most popular French Astronomer.

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Among ASTRONOMERS

Among astronomers, Édouard Stephan ranks 114 out of 531Before him are Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Heinrich Schwabe, Arthur Auwers, Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf, and E. M. Antoniadi. After him are Henry Norris Russell, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Jeremiah Horrocks, Adelard of Bath, Tom Gehrels, and Johann Adam Schall von Bell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1837, Édouard Stephan ranks 31Before him are Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Émile Waldteufel, Pierre Auguste Cot, Vasily Radlov, Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, and Joseph Bell. After him are James Murray, Ion Creangă, Wild Bill Hickok, Abraham Kuyper, Arnold Janssen, and Maria Domenica Mazzarello. Among people deceased in 1923, Édouard Stephan ranks 32Before him are Raymond Radiguet, Edith Södergran, Ernst Troeltsch, Max Nordau, Edward W. Morley, and Hovhannes Tumanyan. After him are Maurice Barrès, Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover, Théophile Steinlen, Georg Luger, William Ernest, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, and Zhang Xun.

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In France

Among people born in France, Édouard Stephan ranks 1,607 out of 6,011Before him are Adela of Normandy (1065), Jean-Mathieu-Philibert Sérurier (1742), Marcel Renault (1872), Suzanne, Duchess of Bourbon (1491), Louis Le Prince (1841), and Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1836). After him are Barthélemy Catherine Joubert (1769), Henri Cartan (1904), Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien (1641), Thoinot Arbeau (1520), Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808), and André Martinet (1908).

Among ASTRONOMERS In France

Among astronomers born in France, Édouard Stephan ranks 7Before him are Charles Messier (1730), Jérôme Lalande (1732), Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille (1713), Pierre Méchain (1744), Jacques Cassini (1677), and Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580). After him are Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Pierre Janssen (1824), Joseph-Nicolas Delisle (1688), Guillaume Bigourdan (1851), Bernard Lyot (1897), and Nicole-Reine Lepaute (1723).