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Cheng Maolan
Born into a rural Chinese family, Cheng Maolan (程茂蘭, also known as Tcheng Mao-Lin, 程茂兰) came alone to France in late 1925.* After working in a factory and attending evening courses, he acquired his higher educ...
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Rougier, Gilbert Léon Laurent
Gilbert Rougier first worked as an engineer-chemist and amateur astronomer, before joining the Strasbourg Observatory after the end of the First World War. He was the first French astronomer to regularly use p...
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Luizet, Michel
Michel Luizet spent his entire career at Lyon Observatory, where he was recruited at a very young age. He first recorded only weather observations. Soon, he also learned to use the equatorial instruments for o...
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Arbey, Louis
Louis Arbey’s career spanned the ranks from French sailor to director of the Bensançon Observatory. Along the way, he was appointed deputy director of the International Time Office at the Paris Observatory. Un...
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Bigay, Joseph-Henri
Joseph-Henri Bigay began his career in 1930 as an elementary-school teacher. But at a young age, he became an amateur astronomer and regularly observed variable stars, communicating his results to the French A...
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Brun, Antoine
Antoine Brun was a distinguished French elementary-school teacher and amateur astronomer who devoted many hours of his life to the observation of variable stars, working in collaboration with a group of profes...
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Couder, André Joseph Alexandre
André Couder was a talented French optical engineer, as well as a distinguished astronomer, who pioneered the fabrication of large telescope mirrors and objective lenses. He served as director of the Laborator...
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Texereau, Jean
Jean Texereau was a distinguished French self-taught telescope mirror and instrument maker who worked for many years as an engineer in the Optical Laboratory of Paris Observatory, first as assistant to André C...
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Bloch, Marie
Marie Bloch worked at the Lyon Observatory for more than 50 years. She was recruited in 1920 to join the auxiliary personnel of the observatory. She learned how to use the astronomical instruments, in parallel...
